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Camp Campbell Ky. [Kentucky]
Oct. 5,1943
Hello darling [sic],
I’m just going to write you a few lines to let you know that I’m still alive and thin thinking of you all the time. Darling I love you so very much that I don’t know what I’d do without…

March 25, 1945
France
Hello darling,
Well here it is sunday [sic] again and I just got back from church. That shows I’m still a good boy. Every time it get [sic] around easter [sic] we always have bad weather and it [sic] the same around here to…

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…

Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 7, 1942

Darling Yve,
I got the box and the cookies were swell, you didn’t forget my candy either. Well I got the letters and the box of cookies [F]riday and I had extra duties until 9:30 [F]riday night so I didn’t get a…

Camp Campbell Ky [Kentucky]
Oct. 30, 1943
Hello kid:
Well here I am again and writing you this letter by moonlight I’ve been in the feild [sic] for three days now and I’m getting around to where I can see in the dark. so [sic] if you can’t read…

Jan 31, 1945
8:30 P.M.
Hi Darling,
Well its me again and am [sic] the same as ever. I feel fine and eat plenty outside of that I can’t tell you much and anyway you know what I write don’t make any sense at all. Well darling I haven’t heard from…

Saturday Oct. 21, 1944
Dearest darling wife,
Well as you know by now I didn’t get my furlough today so I guess it will be next saturday [sic]. I’m telling you it was close though. The first Sgt. had the furloughs all made out and mine had fourteen…


Camp Campbell, Kentucky
April 23. 1943
Darling:
Thanks for the box of candy I got to-day [sic]. It’s been quite a while since I had any good candy. You see, down here they got us rationed to[o]. All we can eat is two bars of candy a day at the…

Camp Campbell, Kentucky
March 18, 1943
Hello darling:
I just got the letter that you wrote the 15[th] of this month and I still love you. Well it[‘]s raining like the Devil to-day [sic] and I got wet twice. Well I’m quarantine[d] with the measles…