Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 27, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 27, 1945
Description
Howard talks about going to church, receiving a package from Yvette, and tells Yvette she doesn’t need to worry about him falling for German girls. He also relays a conversation he had with the captain and the chaplain.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-05-27
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (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
1945-05-27
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Correspondences
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May 27, 1945
Sunday.
Dearest wife,
Well its [sic] me again and I’m feeling fine. today [sic] is sunday [sic] and I just got back from church and I think maybe I’ll go swimming this after-noon [sic]. I got another package from your [sic] and everything was swell, even the brownies. I thought you said they wouldn’t be very good because they’d be cold, but they were. I’m glad to get get those cigaretts [sic] because I haven’t smoked in three whole days maybe some day [sic] I’ll quit. I didn’t write last night darling because I was on
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guard from eight until six this morning and right now I’m sitting on the banks of the river which I don’t even know the name of and writing. It’s a very beautiful day thou [sic] and if you we’re [sic] here I [sic] get a blanket and we could both take sun bathes [sic]. Gee darling I miss you so much and the worse [sic] part is I won’t see you for such a long time. What makes me so darn lonely, all the German guys are out with there [sic] girls and what aint [sic] walking are lying in the sun. In your letter you tell me to get friendly with a sertain [sic] kind of family well
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you don’t have to worry about that because we’re not alowed [sic] to ever talk with Germans unless its [sic] on official business which I don’t have so you don’t have to even worry about German girls in their teens. I hope they hurry up and give me a discharge. The captain [illegible deletion] [wanted?] to know if I wanted to go home and be [illegible] between two white sheets at night and I told him I could get used to it if he’d let me go home and try it. Then the chaplain walked up and said that there was no one who wanted to go home more than he did but I had a quick
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answer for that one and said I did. Gorsh [sic] darling I really miss you like the devil. I miss you more each day and when I do get home I’ll never leave as long as I live. I love you very much my darling and don’t ever think I don’t. I got to leave now to drive the lady to the company so until to morrow [sic] I love you darling with all my heart. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you with all your fixings...
Sunday.
Dearest wife,
Well its [sic] me again and I’m feeling fine. today [sic] is sunday [sic] and I just got back from church and I think maybe I’ll go swimming this after-noon [sic]. I got another package from your [sic] and everything was swell, even the brownies. I thought you said they wouldn’t be very good because they’d be cold, but they were. I’m glad to get get those cigaretts [sic] because I haven’t smoked in three whole days maybe some day [sic] I’ll quit. I didn’t write last night darling because I was on
[Page 2]
guard from eight until six this morning and right now I’m sitting on the banks of the river which I don’t even know the name of and writing. It’s a very beautiful day thou [sic] and if you we’re [sic] here I [sic] get a blanket and we could both take sun bathes [sic]. Gee darling I miss you so much and the worse [sic] part is I won’t see you for such a long time. What makes me so darn lonely, all the German guys are out with there [sic] girls and what aint [sic] walking are lying in the sun. In your letter you tell me to get friendly with a sertain [sic] kind of family well
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you don’t have to worry about that because we’re not alowed [sic] to ever talk with Germans unless its [sic] on official business which I don’t have so you don’t have to even worry about German girls in their teens. I hope they hurry up and give me a discharge. The captain [illegible deletion] [wanted?] to know if I wanted to go home and be [illegible] between two white sheets at night and I told him I could get used to it if he’d let me go home and try it. Then the chaplain walked up and said that there was no one who wanted to go home more than he did but I had a quick
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answer for that one and said I did. Gorsh [sic] darling I really miss you like the devil. I miss you more each day and when I do get home I’ll never leave as long as I live. I love you very much my darling and don’t ever think I don’t. I got to leave now to drive the lady to the company so until to morrow [sic] I love you darling with all my heart. As Ever,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you with all your fixings...
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 27, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/986.