Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 10, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 10, 1944
Subject
Military Life, Love Letter, Bivouac
Description
Howard told Yvette about the cold weather and that he is not able to answer the letters while on bivouac.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-02-10
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
1944-02-10
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[official United States Army seal is at the top and center of the page]
Feb. 10, 1944
6:45 P.M.
Dear Yve:
I know its [sic] been a long time since I’ve written you but you got to under stand [sic] how it is. I just got back from bivouac and am leaving back for there wither Friday or Saturday for an other [sic] week. Darling its [sic] getting a little colder down here and it won’t be so nice but you know me I love the army. Darling don’t blame me if I don’t answer the letters because out in the feild [sic] its [sic] hard to keep track of letters, they get lost awful easy and then when
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you get time to write them you can’t find the letter don’t we have fun though. Well darling nothing knew new has happened down here so there [sic] not much to write about except I love you very much and that [illegible deletion] all I can say. Darling I love you very very much. Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you
Feb. 10, 1944
6:45 P.M.
Dear Yve:
I know its [sic] been a long time since I’ve written you but you got to under stand [sic] how it is. I just got back from bivouac and am leaving back for there wither Friday or Saturday for an other [sic] week. Darling its [sic] getting a little colder down here and it won’t be so nice but you know me I love the army. Darling don’t blame me if I don’t answer the letters because out in the feild [sic] its [sic] hard to keep track of letters, they get lost awful easy and then when
[page 2]
you get time to write them you can’t find the letter don’t we have fun though. Well darling nothing knew new has happened down here so there [sic] not much to write about except I love you very much and that [illegible deletion] all I can say. Darling I love you very very much. Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 10, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1207.