Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 16, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 16, 1944
Subject
Military life, Bivouac
Description
Howard wrote this letter while on bivouac and about the conversations soldiers are having around the campfire.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-02-16
Contributor
Probst, Jacob (transcription, digitization, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1944-02-16
Coverage
Camp Campbell
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
Feb. 16, 1944
10:00 A.M.
Goodmorning Darling:
How are you to day [sic]? I’m having a great time out in the country you see we’re right up near the battle front [sic] and will go into action any time not, but I take time out to write you a letter. Gee darling I love you so darn much and if you only knew how much I miss you. Last night we all sat around the fire and the topic was married life and the raising of children can you imagine a bunch of guys on a topic like
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that. We got as far as when to feed the baby orange juice then I went to bed. Well darling they got us up at five this morning had chow then gave us the low down on the situation which looked bad this morning early but it’s well in hand now. Darling I got to close now because here comes the order to move up and he means move. I love you darling and I think of you all the time. I love you I love you I love you. Lots of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
Excuse the pencil I ran out of ink.
10:00 A.M.
Goodmorning Darling:
How are you to day [sic]? I’m having a great time out in the country you see we’re right up near the battle front [sic] and will go into action any time not, but I take time out to write you a letter. Gee darling I love you so darn much and if you only knew how much I miss you. Last night we all sat around the fire and the topic was married life and the raising of children can you imagine a bunch of guys on a topic like
[page 2]
that. We got as far as when to feed the baby orange juice then I went to bed. Well darling they got us up at five this morning had chow then gave us the low down on the situation which looked bad this morning early but it’s well in hand now. Darling I got to close now because here comes the order to move up and he means move. I love you darling and I think of you all the time. I love you I love you I love you. Lots of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
Excuse the pencil I ran out of ink.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 16, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1210.