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Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 17, 1942
Darling Yve,
I have been so darn busy I haven’t been able to write. I been on the go all the time. I’m sorry if you think that I don’t want to write but some times [sic] it impossible. In your letter you think I…
Tags: Blackout, Love, Military life, Passing out
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 29, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
June 29, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
You wouldn’t listen to me when I told you you wouldn’t be one but you had to wait and find out for yourself. Well darling I got up early…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 13, 1944
[The following is written on official U S O stationary]
May 13, 1944
Darling:
Well darling I’m going to see the chaplain to morrow [sic] after noon [sic]. I won’t be able to see him to-day [sic] because I can’t get off until seven thirty…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 14, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 14, 1944
07:00 P.M.
Hello darling
I didn’t sleep a wink last night and thats [sic] not the name of a sog either. I got to thinking of you and I don’t know why…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 15, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 15, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dearest Darling,
I love you. I love you. I love you. That’s how I feel to-night [sic]. It may sound funny to you but I just got back from…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 16, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 16, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Hi Darling:
You know when I mailed that letter to you last night I had it all sealed and then I saw the peice [sic] of paper with the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 18, 1942
Here is a picture of me sleeping don’t I look nice. Don’t forget what I told you in the letter that will come with this. Love
Howard
[This was written on a postcard with a picture of a soldier sleeping with…
Tags: Sleeping
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 18, 1942
Yve Darling
I have been pretty busy the last two or three days. I was out on the machine gun range and didn’t get back until the light went out [W]ednsday and [T]hursday. I had a detail until ten o’clock and to…
Tags: Machine Gun, Military life, money
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 17, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 17, 1944
10:30 P.M.
Hi Shorty
Darling I still love you even if you are a tiny thing. I went for my first instruction to-night [sic] and we had a nice long talk.…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 19, 1944
[The following is written on official United States Army stationary]
May 19, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Darling.
I didn’t write last night because after I had supper and washed I layed [sic] down for a few minutes, well the few minutes ran in to…
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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