Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 22, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 22, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
He tells Yvette that today is the first day in the field and three men were killed by a half track that was overturned. He also asks Yvette if she could send him some cookies.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-09-22
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
1944-09-22
Coverage
Tennessee
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 21, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Hello Half pint,
Well I’m really tired to night. [sic] I’ve been in the field all day and to-night [sic] I’m all packed and ready for that month in the field. We leave in the morning and we come back here around the 22nd of Oct. we’ll probably do all [of] our manuvering [sic] down in Tenn. in the old manuver [sic] area but I hear that after that their [sic] going to give furlough again so that is good. I might be able to be home around my birthday. Gee darling do you
[Page 2]
know I’m growing old. Darling you know I love you and I miss you more each day and half pint I want to go see you so bad that I feel like going over the Hill but I just cant, [sic] it wouldn’t be right. I got to leave now so I can take a shower and go to bed. I love you darling. As Ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you more.
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Sept. 21, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Hello Half pint,
Well I’m really tired to night. [sic] I’ve been in the field all day and to-night [sic] I’m all packed and ready for that month in the field. We leave in the morning and we come back here around the 22nd of Oct. we’ll probably do all [of] our manuvering [sic] down in Tenn. in the old manuver [sic] area but I hear that after that their [sic] going to give furlough again so that is good. I might be able to be home around my birthday. Gee darling do you
[Page 2]
know I’m growing old. Darling you know I love you and I miss you more each day and half pint I want to go see you so bad that I feel like going over the Hill but I just cant, [sic] it wouldn’t be right. I got to leave now so I can take a shower and go to bed. I love you darling. 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, September 22, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1194.