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Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 24, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 24, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am so sorry to hear that your mother has gone to the hospital but I guess it is for the best so you ought to cheer up everything is going to be allrite [sic]. I wish that I was down to your house…
Tags: Hospital
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 24, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 24, 1942
My Darling Yve,
I love you very much and I hope you feel the same. Your letters are coming to me faster than I though[t] they would. [S]ome days I’ve got two or three in fact I get them so fast I don’t know where…
Tags: Bad habits, Gambling, Love, Military life, smoking
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 23, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 23, 1942
Darling Yve,
It's ok to write or send any thing [sic] you want to because I am receiving your letters everyday now. Don’t be afraid that I won’t get what you send darling because I will. The army life is getting…
Tags: Army life, Bag pipes, Military life, Payroll
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
No date
Darling Yve,
I am getting quite a lot of mail I just got two more letters from you and one from my mother. Why don’t you go out and have a good time don’t do like me. I go to bed at 9 o’clock every night. There isn’t…
Tags: Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 20, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 20, 1942
Dear sweet,
I just got an other [sic] letter from you to-day [sic] so sorry you feel so blue. Why don’t you go out and have a good time the time will go by faster. Well darling I went out last night an[d] went to…
Tags: Film, homesick, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 18, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am glad to hear from you. I got three letters from you to-day [sic]. Well to begin with we changed clothes to-day [sic] and put on our sun tan out fits [sic] they are pretty nice. I was going to…
Tags: Girls, Love, Military life, Military training
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 16, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 16, 1942
Darling Yve,
I just got your letter and I feel much better. Well to start off with I [sic] tell you what I did to-day [sic]. We got up at 5:45 and ate chow then they told us we were going out on a drill field…
Tags: Doctor, Love, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Darling Yve,
How are you[?] I haven’t heard from you for a long time. Why don't you write. I am fine I have a Tan from my forehead to my [illeligible deletion] shoulder’s [sic] and is it [sic] hot down here. You know I would…
Tags: Dissapointed, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 15, 1942
Darling Yve,
I only got one letter from you in 15 days in the army. [S]o I[‘d] like to hear from you again. [T]he letter you did send me I keep reading it over and over again. [Y]ou don’t know I good I feel when I…
Tags: Love, Organ lessons
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 12, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 12, 1942
Darling Yve,
Here I am as tired as can be. I want you to write me at the address on this envelope, how is everything back home[?] I just came back from a 10 mile hike and don’t feel like going anywhere. I got a…
Tags: drill, Hiking, Military life
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