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Dec. 4, 1944
9:30 P.M.
Hello Darling,
How are you to-night? I feel so lonely that I’m about ready to send a telegram for you to come down but I’ll wait until christmas [sic]. Well darling, I hope Jim gets home alright but he had to learn his…

Dec. 5, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Yvette dearest,
Gee I miss you so much that it hurts. I wish I could get out of this darn army. I know I’ve been awful lucky to stay on this side so long but I’m getting awful tired of it. Darling no letter to day [sic] and…

Dec. 8, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dearest darling wife and no kid,
Did you think I forgot all about you? Well I didn’t in fact I just got back from Crane, Indiana. It was a pretty good trip but tiresome. I’ll start in the beginning. We left camp wednesday…

Dec. 10, 1944
6:00 P.M.
Dearest darling wife,
Well darling its [sic] the same old thing you get up in the morning lay around all day and go back to bed again. I didn’t write last night because I went to town to find you something for christmas…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 15, 1943
Hi Darling,
What[‘s] cooking? Well here I am again still the same old guy who left his home town to go and fight for his country. It was just a year ago to day [sic] when I went to Worcester to try to join…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 16, 1943
Hi darling:
How’s the world treating you? If it[‘]s not treating you alright let me know and I [will] fix it. No kidding darling I sure miss you like the devil. I wish this curse word war was over. Well I…

Oct. 5, 1945
2:10 A.M.
Hello beautiful woman,
Gee I love you more than ever. I can hardly go to sleep anymore. I just had to get up and post my guard relief so thats [sic] why I’m writing and thats [sic] not all it’s because I’m so darn lonely. …

Oct. 5, 1945
at night
Hi Beautiful,
Its [sic] me again and I’m not drunk either. I’m just kind of lonely to night [sic] because I didn’t get a letter today but I don’t blame you for it, it’s because of Sunday and mail probably didn’t get out. I…

Oct. 7, 1945
Sunday
Dearest darling Wife
Well it seem that the army is all mixed up even with the 76th div. but you should see it out here. One thing the weather has been nice out here. The temp reaches up around 100 in the middle of the day and…

Oct. 8, 1945
Monday
Dearest darling Wife,
Well here I am again and I love you still more to-day was my first day at driving and I didn’t work very hard because I just didn’t feel in the mood, and another thing don’t get mad at me when I tell you I…