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Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 7, 1945
Nov. 7, 1945
Wednesday
Dearest Yve.,
Gee I getting tired of being so far away from you. It seems like such a long time since I left but its [sic] only been two months and these were a lot of times we were apart more than that, but now I seem to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 8, 1945
Nov. 8, 1945
Thursday
Dearest Yve.
I love you, I need you and I think your [sic] the most beautiful woman in the world. I really mean every word of it to [sic]. I got the most beautiful little wife there is and I got such a nice letter from her…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 4, 1942
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
May 4th 1942
Darling Yve;
How do you feel now that I not[sic] around any more. [A]re you staying home every night or going out[?]. Excuse the writing because I am laying down and writing on a book. This morning I was…
Tags: Love, Military life, Sand Storm
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 7, 1942
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
May 7, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am having normal time wish you were here. I wrote my mother and I told her I would call her up [S]aturday night if I would be able to see her [S]unday and I told her to bring you, I am…
Tags: Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 8, 1942
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
May 8, 1942
Yve,
Here is a place to have a good time I’ve see it but I never know when I can go there. This is the place where they hold all the dances.
Howard
(postcard with picture)
Tags: USO
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 10, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 10, 1942
Darling Yve,
Here I am down south in the hills and don't like it because it is so hot. We left Devons at five o’clock [F]riday and arrived 10 o’clock [S]unday and what a trip. I was hoping I would be able to…
Tags: Fort Knox, Leave, Military life
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
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 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 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
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Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910