Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 19, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 19, 1943
Subject
Military Life, Bivouac
Description
Howard told Yvette that they came back from bivouac early because it was too cold.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-12-19
Contributor
Probst, Jacob (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
1943-12-19
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 19, 1943
Hello Darling,
Gee its [sic] been a long time since I’ve written to you but I’ve had little too much work in the feild [sic]. Friday morning we left the company for a three day bivouac which didn’t last three days because we came back this morning because it was so cold and I mean it was cold. I stood in the show line friday night and we had beans and before I had time to eat them they were frozen and it was the same way at chow
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the next morning. They had to bring a few of the boy in to [sic] the hospital whe because they caught some good colds, but as luck will have it I haven’t had a cold yet. (knock on wood) Well darling no sooner than we end one bivouac we got to get ready to go on another which means that I got to get my stuff all pack up to night [sic] again. The company commander called me into the office to day and asked me if I could operate the two way voice radio we have in my truck. [illegible deletion] I told him I could so he has giving me another job for this next week to be a radio operator for a week while the other man is on
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furlough. Maybe he’ll give me a furlough when he get [sic] back. I hope so any way [sic]. You mentioned in a letter that if I came home to wear my red flanels, darling you knnow I haven’t got any of those things (excuse the english.) Well Ted has gone to town to night [sic] and every thing [sic] is so quiet here you can hear a pin drop. Gee I wish I could see you again. I’m so darn tired of being way down here. Well darling I guess I’ll have to close now but I write as soon as I come back from this bivouac you see some last one day while others last a week and you never know how long
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they’ll last until you come back home some of these days so keep loving me. I love you
Howard
[the following is included as postscript]
I can’t come home xmas do you think it would be to much to ask for new years?
Dec. 19, 1943
Hello Darling,
Gee its [sic] been a long time since I’ve written to you but I’ve had little too much work in the feild [sic]. Friday morning we left the company for a three day bivouac which didn’t last three days because we came back this morning because it was so cold and I mean it was cold. I stood in the show line friday night and we had beans and before I had time to eat them they were frozen and it was the same way at chow
[page 2]
the next morning. They had to bring a few of the boy in to [sic] the hospital whe because they caught some good colds, but as luck will have it I haven’t had a cold yet. (knock on wood) Well darling no sooner than we end one bivouac we got to get ready to go on another which means that I got to get my stuff all pack up to night [sic] again. The company commander called me into the office to day and asked me if I could operate the two way voice radio we have in my truck. [illegible deletion] I told him I could so he has giving me another job for this next week to be a radio operator for a week while the other man is on
[page 3]
furlough. Maybe he’ll give me a furlough when he get [sic] back. I hope so any way [sic]. You mentioned in a letter that if I came home to wear my red flanels, darling you knnow I haven’t got any of those things (excuse the english.) Well Ted has gone to town to night [sic] and every thing [sic] is so quiet here you can hear a pin drop. Gee I wish I could see you again. I’m so darn tired of being way down here. Well darling I guess I’ll have to close now but I write as soon as I come back from this bivouac you see some last one day while others last a week and you never know how long
[page 4]
they’ll last until you come back home some of these days so keep loving me. I love you
Howard
[the following is included as postscript]
I can’t come home xmas do you think it would be to much to ask for new years?
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 19, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1173.