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Nov. 3, 1945
Saturday
Hello Darling,
Well its [sic] just me again and just back from a hard day at work and I mean work. I don’t know when I’ll go back again to that jail because I don’t know when I get my next pass but the work make [sic] the…

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 5, 1944


Hello darling:

I got another letter from you to day [sic] and you said you saw Jane Eyre, well I saw it about two months before you. I’ll admit it was very different. Well anyway it [is] a different kind…

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 9, 1944


Dearest Yve.

Well as you know darling I haven’t forgotten you as yet and I don’t think I ever will. Well we did go on bivouac as I thought and we stayed there until this morning and it rained almost all…

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 11, 1944


Hello Darling,

Well how’s my little half-pint curly top to-night [sic]? Gee darling I love you so darn much that I can’t put in to [sic] word[s] how I feel. Darling will you forgive me for not writing…

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 13, 1944


Hello darling,

I love you and I just got back from bivouac and it was really a nice warm night, but any way I’m glad to be back. Gee darling the way you talk [N]orman + [M]idgie [?] must be awful happy.…

The following letter is written on official United States Army stationary]

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 16, 1944


Hello little darling,

I still love you and even if you are a problem child you don’t know what a problem I’ll be. Well…

[The following letter is written on official United States Army stationary]

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 17, 1944


Dear Halfpint,

Well hows [sic] every little thing to night [sic]? Gee I’m lonesome now but I guess I’ll get over it. The…

[The following letter is written on official United States Army stationary]

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 18, 1944


Dearest Halfpint,

I didn’t get any letter from you to day [sic] and I’m so lonely and I love you so much and oh well a lot…

[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 19, 1944

11:30


Hello darling,

Well we had a nice beer party, not too much beer but the fried chicken was good. I started out this morning…

[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]

Camp Campbell, Ky.

April 20, 1944


Hi short and Beautiful

Gee darling I love you. You know it[‘s] too bad that I have to be so far away from you all the time. Well…