Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 9, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 9, 1945
Description
Howard asks how things are back home and mentions receiving pictures that he and Yvette had taken as well as a letter from Jack. He hopes to not be sent to China, and briefly mentions the weather fluctuations at camp.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-05-09
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (digitization, transcription, metadata)
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1945-05-09
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Correspondences
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Germany
May 9, 1945
Dearest darling wife,
Well how’s every little thing and all the big things to [sic]? To-night [sic] I feel fine and I wish either you could be here or me there. I got a few pictures we took a while back and the one that has baby factory on it is really one of those places that they send [illegible] women to and the others well just pictures. I got a letter from Jack to day [sic] and just answered it. He’s had a little tough luck but I guess it’ll be alright soon. We’ll have to go down and see them
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after I get home. Well darling everybody is writing letters to night [sic] I’m sitting at a bench with a buddy of mine and this is his pen I’m writing with now. He’s [illegible words] for me. Well here I am back with my pen a gain and it writes better. Well to get back to you I love you darling do you know that? Since this war is over over here I can’t think of nothing but going home. Of course we could be shipped to china [sic] or stay as occupational troops or go home. I don’t know which it’ll be but I hope it [is] the latter of the three don’t you? Gosh it gets long around
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here. Red camp just came in with a bottle and gave us all a little drink and I guess I’ll make a little tea later. Well honey thats [sic] about all the news I have right now. I love you very much my darling and I wish you were here to night [sic] to keep me warm the nights get quite chilly but the day [sic] are hot. Good night darling and write often. I love you. As Ever,
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you with all (?)
May 9, 1945
Dearest darling wife,
Well how’s every little thing and all the big things to [sic]? To-night [sic] I feel fine and I wish either you could be here or me there. I got a few pictures we took a while back and the one that has baby factory on it is really one of those places that they send [illegible] women to and the others well just pictures. I got a letter from Jack to day [sic] and just answered it. He’s had a little tough luck but I guess it’ll be alright soon. We’ll have to go down and see them
[Page 2]
after I get home. Well darling everybody is writing letters to night [sic] I’m sitting at a bench with a buddy of mine and this is his pen I’m writing with now. He’s [illegible words] for me. Well here I am back with my pen a gain and it writes better. Well to get back to you I love you darling do you know that? Since this war is over over here I can’t think of nothing but going home. Of course we could be shipped to china [sic] or stay as occupational troops or go home. I don’t know which it’ll be but I hope it [is] the latter of the three don’t you? Gosh it gets long around
[Page 3]
here. Red camp just came in with a bottle and gave us all a little drink and I guess I’ll make a little tea later. Well honey thats [sic] about all the news I have right now. I love you very much my darling and I wish you were here to night [sic] to keep me warm the nights get quite chilly but the day [sic] are hot. Good night darling and write often. I love you. As Ever,
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you with all (?)
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 9, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 8, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1278.