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Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 9, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 9, 1943
11:00 PM
Hello darling:
Well darling I guess you think I forgot all about you but I didn’t. You see, I had to go back to the feild [sic] to finish up some training before I leave on furlough. By the way, you…
Tags: furloughs
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
August 5, 1943
Hi darling: Well how are you to-day [sic]? You probaly think it’s funny that I’ve haven’t written to you lately but it [is] only because I’ve been through a week of (hell) last week. I had to use that word but…
Tags: combat training
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 27, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 27, 1943
Hello darling:
Just a few lines to let you know I still love you. To night [sic] I got a terrible headache and I’m going to bed as soon as I finish writing this letter. Well darling by this time you are at the…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 25, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 25, 1943
Hello darling:
Well it[‘]s been a long time no see but I think I’ll make it yet. I think I’m going to be able to get home in Aug. [August] if nothing happens. I got the letter in which you said something like…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 19, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 19, 1943
Hi kid:
How do you like my writing paper? I’ve been so busy in [the] army for the past week. I don’t know what [is] going to happen next. I had a chance to get to town so that accounts for the writing…
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 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
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 8, 1943
Hello darling:
I haven’t heard from you for three days now are you mad? I’ve been out on a little camping trip as they say in civilian life and just got back. Darling you seem to think I don’t want you to go to…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 5, 1943
Yvette, darling:
Well to-day [sic] was hot too but I feel better after a nice cold shower and not the kind that you get when you get married. I was out on the range all day today and wasted a lot of bullets…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 1, 1943.
Camp Campbell, Kentucky
July 1, 1943
Hello Frenchy:
How are you doing? I’m fine I just got back from two days in the field and had a nice cold shower. What more could a guy ask except the impossible like asking for someone like you to be here…
Tags: Routine, sleep depravation, theatre
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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