Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 6, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 6, 1943
Subject
Military life
Description
Howard tells Yvette about how he lost his job to a WAAC.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-10-06
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
1943-10-06
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell Ky. [Kentucky]
Oct. 6,1943
Hello Darling,
Well here it is another bright sunny day and I feel like the first rose of summer. You’ll probably think I was drunk when I wrote that letter that I did when I got in last night. Well I couldn’t of felt worse if I was drunk because for the last three nights I’ve been teaching black-out driving you know when you drive in the dark
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and can’t see anything in front of you and you hope you don’t run into a tree that is too big for you [sic] truck to push over or run into a river where you get wet. Oh well so much for that. Well darling [sic] I lost my corporal rating and they made a technician fifth grade out of me instead. You get the same pay anyway. The reason I lost my clerk job because they got too many w.a.c [Women's Army Corps] and you know what they are
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for. To Releive [sic] a man for active duty, who well one had to take my job and I got to go in the feild [sic]. I’ll either be a mechanic or a driver. I haven’t found out yet. Well darling [sic] I still love you and it [sic] been three days since I got a letter from you. Well darling [sic] I got to go now so I [sic] write again soon and don’t forget me. I love you. As ever
Howard
Oct. 6,1943
Hello Darling,
Well here it is another bright sunny day and I feel like the first rose of summer. You’ll probably think I was drunk when I wrote that letter that I did when I got in last night. Well I couldn’t of felt worse if I was drunk because for the last three nights I’ve been teaching black-out driving you know when you drive in the dark
[page 2]
and can’t see anything in front of you and you hope you don’t run into a tree that is too big for you [sic] truck to push over or run into a river where you get wet. Oh well so much for that. Well darling [sic] I lost my corporal rating and they made a technician fifth grade out of me instead. You get the same pay anyway. The reason I lost my clerk job because they got too many w.a.c [Women's Army Corps] and you know what they are
[page 3]
for. To Releive [sic] a man for active duty, who well one had to take my job and I got to go in the feild [sic]. I’ll either be a mechanic or a driver. I haven’t found out yet. Well darling [sic] I still love you and it [sic] been three days since I got a letter from you. Well darling [sic] I got to go now so I [sic] write again soon and don’t forget me. I love you. As ever
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 6, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/818.