Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
Howard asks Yvette what she wants for her birthday. He also says that he hopes that he will soon get a bivouac.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-07-19
Contributor
Miller, Christine (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1944-07-19
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 19, 1944
10:45 P.M.
Dearest Yve,
Gee it [sic] late tonight and I got to get some sleep but I [have] just got to write to you a few lines to let you know that I’m still here in Ky. By the way darling what so you want for your birthday? I don’t know what to buy gee I miss you so much darling. I just got finish[ed] [with] work and am very tired and I can’t even write you a not hardly [sic] but one thing
[Page 2]
I know is that I really love you and thats [sic] the main thing. I think I’ll go out on bivouac to morrow [sic] night and you won’t get a very long letter to morrow. [sic] I [have] go to go now but darling I love you and I wish I could see you to night [sic] because I’m so lonely. I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you more.
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 19, 1944
10:45 P.M.
Dearest Yve,
Gee it [sic] late tonight and I got to get some sleep but I [have] just got to write to you a few lines to let you know that I’m still here in Ky. By the way darling what so you want for your birthday? I don’t know what to buy gee I miss you so much darling. I just got finish[ed] [with] work and am very tired and I can’t even write you a not hardly [sic] but one thing
[Page 2]
I know is that I really love you and thats [sic] the main thing. I think I’ll go out on bivouac to morrow [sic] night and you won’t get a very long letter to morrow. [sic] I [have] go to go now but darling I love you and I wish I could see you to night [sic] because I’m so lonely. I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you more.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1088.