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Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 16, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 16, 1944
Dear Mummy,
I just got back from Church, and it’s very hot out to day [sic] infact its [sic] an ideal day to go swimming but there’s no place to swim. I wish I…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 15, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery with the following quote from the Bible in the top left corner]
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18 [Camp Campbell,…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 15, 1942
Darling Yve
I haven’t much time to write because the[y] just told us to get our packs rolled for a few days out in the country. I know we got to go 15 miles before noon but that ain’t so bad. How are you? [D]o you…
Tags: Hike, Military training, Peep
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 14, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 14, 1942
My darling little Yve
I haven’t had a letter from you for three days and I wonder if your mad. Sunday night I went to the show and after the show I came by the officers club and they were having a dance. It was…
Tags: Crying, Half-Track, Love, Officers club, song, Star-Dust
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 13, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery with the following quote from the Bible in the top left corner]
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18
July 13, 1944
3:30…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery with the following quote from the Bible in the top left corner]
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18
July 12, 1944
10:00…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Monday
July 12, 1943
Hello darling:
Well here I am again after a good day [of] work. I just shaved and had a shower and feel like going out and raise [sic] ---- [intentional blank in place of “hell”] but it will have to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 12, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 12, 1942
Darling Yve,
I wish I were with you right now. You don’t know how much I miss you. I got the box of cookies you sent me to-day [sic] and they were really good. They came all in one piece too. You know I got Sat.…
Tags: Bus, Military life, Roland
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 11, 1944
[Written on United States Army stationery with the following quote from the Bible in the top left corner]
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18
July 11, 1944
9:00…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 11, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
Sunday
July 11, 1943
Hell darling:
How’s my little wife to-day [sic]? Do you still love me a little? I lmpw I’ve been a bad boy for not writing last night when I came in off the reange but there was a reason. It was…
Tags: policy, recreation
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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