Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 21, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 21, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
He tells Yvette that he got back from bivouac and that they are having an inspection soon. He also says that they are possibly moving camps. He reiterates that he loves her very much and misses her a lot.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-07-21
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
1944-07-21
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 21, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
How’s my beautiful little wife to night? [sic] Gee I miss you more and more every day and about that song “Ten days with baby,” I wish I could spend ten million days with Baby. Well darling I got back from that over night [sic] bivouac and every thing [sic] is fine although we got a big inspection to morrow [sic] and you know how I like inspection. Darling I’ve got some news that don’t sound so good at the present. It [sic] about coming down. Its [sic] like this we are going to have inspection for the next two or three weeks and after that we might go out in the field for a couple of months and that means that
[Page 2]
if we do go in the field that you won’t be able to come down, and then there’s another angle to if we might just move to another camp it might be farther or nearer to home I don’t know and the officers couldn’t give us any definite information about it as [of] yet but they said when they know they would tell us. So I guess you better wait until I can find out something about it, but gee darling I want to see you so bad! I love you and it doesn’t seem fair that we can’t be to gether [sic] does it darling? Well darling I guess thats [sic] all the news for to day [sic] except I keep loving you more + more and I guess we’ll just have to wait a little while. Good night darling and pleasent dreams. I had a dream about you last night a [sic] it was good. I’ll tell you about it some time. I love you and need you so much darling. Your loving husband,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you twice as much as you love me darling! Thats [sic] a lot isnt [sic] it?
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 21, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Hello darling,
How’s my beautiful little wife to night? [sic] Gee I miss you more and more every day and about that song “Ten days with baby,” I wish I could spend ten million days with Baby. Well darling I got back from that over night [sic] bivouac and every thing [sic] is fine although we got a big inspection to morrow [sic] and you know how I like inspection. Darling I’ve got some news that don’t sound so good at the present. It [sic] about coming down. Its [sic] like this we are going to have inspection for the next two or three weeks and after that we might go out in the field for a couple of months and that means that
[Page 2]
if we do go in the field that you won’t be able to come down, and then there’s another angle to if we might just move to another camp it might be farther or nearer to home I don’t know and the officers couldn’t give us any definite information about it as [of] yet but they said when they know they would tell us. So I guess you better wait until I can find out something about it, but gee darling I want to see you so bad! I love you and it doesn’t seem fair that we can’t be to gether [sic] does it darling? Well darling I guess thats [sic] all the news for to day [sic] except I keep loving you more + more and I guess we’ll just have to wait a little while. Good night darling and pleasent dreams. I had a dream about you last night a [sic] it was good. I’ll tell you about it some time. I love you and need you so much darling. Your loving husband,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you twice as much as you love me darling! Thats [sic] a lot isnt [sic] it?
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 21, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1090.