Transcript Monday June 16th, 1952Hi Sweetheart, Recieved your very interesting letter this morning Baby, so I thought I would write it right away. Sweetheart you need never worry about me changing my mind because it will never happen I Love you much to much, for anything to ever change my mind. Honey, the first time I ever saw you is the time that I fell in Love and that is the first time in my life. You really want to know what it will seem like when we meet and I’m able to...

Transcript Wednesday June 11th, 1952Hi Sweetheart, How is pretty little Doll today? I hope you feel half as good as I do. It was a nice warm day today, I usually feel loggy and never like to do anything. So today had to be exceptional in order to make me feel this way. Maybe it’s because I think of you so much Honey. Do you believe me now when I say that I Love You? Gee whiz, do you know that this makes the third letter that I have written to you this week? So by now Honey, You...

Transcript Sunday June 1st, 1952Hi Sweetheart, Hey Baby, that was really a nice letter you wrote to me. I hope you mean it Dear? I read it over and over for about a dozen times. And it became more interesting the more I read it. Don’t worry about me not wanting you Honey, nothing could keep me from you. I still dream of those soft lips and your beautiful figure. Oh man, Sweetheart I really love your build. I want you to stay that way too. A nice little armful. Do I take too much...

Transcript Tuesday May 18th, 1952 Bobligan, GermanyHi Sweetheart, Well here I am, over here at a different outfit, for how long I don’t know. It took over six hours to get here. I’m to be a parts expiditor. I won’t get any mail while I am here. So keep writting to my other address. All I have to do is, give the right Stack number and nomenclature for parts, and see if they all came in good shape. The name of the outfit is 78th Heavy Ordnance Battalion. We draw a hang of a lot of...

Transcript Tuesday May 6th 1952 Bad Kreuznach, GermanyHi Sweetheart, How are you today? I hope you feel as good as I do. It must be the warm weather we are having. I have barely wrote any letters at all in the last two weeks because I’ve been doing an awful lot of fishing. So now I’ll try to catch up. I hope you will forgive me Honey, I’m sorry and will try to keep on the ball. Am I forgiven? I know I don’t deserve your forgiveness, but I am in high hopes that you will. I’m...

Transcript Thursday April 3rd, 1952 Bad Kreuznach, GermanyHi Sweetheart, How is everything today, Honey? Aso how do you feel. Boy I feel like hang, I still haven’t sent you pictures of myself. But I promise I’ll have some taken. All I can do is look at the pictures you sent to me and dream about you. Boy what dreams I have, it’s lucky the Army doesn’t Censor dreams. (If they could) I would go A.W.O.L. What a figure. I still say I can’t wait for our first kiss. (Oh Boy.) I’ll...

Transcript Tuesday 26th February, 1952 Bad Krueznach, GermanyHi Honey: How are you today? Good as usual I bet. I feel pretty good, but still wish to high heaven that I were at home. This has been an awful slow day today. Time just seemed to drag by for me. It seems like years before my time will be up and here I have but 9 ½ months more to go. DO you think you can wait that long for me Sweetheart? You know that is an awful long time. I don’t want any one to be monkeyed up, by...

Transcript Sunday February 3rd, 1952Hi Sweetheart, I recieved your letters the other day and also your pictures. Honey you look simply beautiful. And also look a hang of a lot older then you really are. No kidding I mean it. Duane and I went over to the Snack Bar and had a couple of hamburgs and a few banana splits. Just think I’m going to be real fat when I get home, if I keep eatting like I’m doing. You won’t want to go out with me then. I barely drunk at all anymore, I can’t...

Transcript Thursday Jan. 31st, 1952 Bad Kreuznach, GermanyHi Honey, How are you today? Alright I hope. I feel fine, but would feel much better if I were at home. Just think I have only a little better then 10 and a half months. It won’t be too long before I’m home again. Gee will that be nice to be home again. I’m going to go to Paris France the 12th of February just to get away from it all. I’m going to keep taking three days till my time is used up. Time goes by all the...

Transcript Friday December 29th, 1951 Bad Kreuznach, GermanyHi Sweetheart, Received two letters from you today, one was datted the 17th and the other the 24th of December. Gee whiz I’ve been writting right along, but the Army Post Office were plowed under with mail, and a lot of letters were probably lost. They should have all of our mail delivered by the end of January. That’s how the mail situation really is. Guess where I’m going the first of January? To Lucerne Switzerland....

Transcript Hi Honey, Please excuse the delay in my answering your letter. I’ll try to make it up to you Honey. Well how do you feel today? Okay? I hope so anyway. I feel pretty good. I just came back from the show and was laying on my bed daydreaming, and I thought of you. No kidding Honey. The time is really drawing close now just six more months to go. I hope you haven’t changed your mind about me Honey, because I still love you with all my heart. I’m day dreaming about your terrific...

Transcript Sunday 8th June 1952Dearest, Sweetheart, How is my dream girl today Honey? I hope you feel fine? I always do, that is, every time I think of you. I can’t wait till the day I’ll be able to hold you in my arms. When I get you Sweetheart, no one will ever be able to take you from me. “I Love you so very much.” It hurts me even to tell you about it Darling, because I’ve never so much as kissed you. I’ve never felt so much Love for anyone as I do for you. I’ll probably be...

Transcript Wednesday Aug 5th, 53Hi Doll, Thanks a lot for the Birthday Card. You were the only person, who seemed to remember. As for my being mad at you, (Heaven forbid) it will never happen. You are the one that should be mad. When I came home the first thing that I did was start to visit all my relation, and honest, that takes in an awful lot of people. As for my not coming out to see you, well I figured by this time you wouldn’t want to see me, and I wouldn’t blame you one...

Scope and Contents Aug. 19. 1953Hi Darling, Ime on KP right now I got an hour off so I thought ide write to you. boy is KP hell I got up 4 this morning and we won’t git through until about 8 it’s about fifteen to three now we go back at four. this is one hell of a life I hate it. boy is it warm today itel probably go down to thirty tonight, that would just about be the way it will be. Well maby ill see you in four days I hope so. I miss you more and more each day. boy ill be ne happy...

Transcript Thursday Dec. 17th, 1953Hi Ila, Now please don’t get mad for being so tardy on answering your last letter. (Am I forgiven?) If not, I guess I’m just wasting both our times by doing this. You must be going steady by now huh? The reason that I didn’t answer your last letter was that I started to go with someone, but I guess she just isn’t my type. Wants her way all the time, and thinks that I shouldn’t hang around with my brother and some of the guys. She is starting to...

Transcript Sunday Jan 3rd, 1954Hi Ila, Well I’m looking for a girl again and I’m starting to wonder about someone. The girl I went with, broke up with me on New Years Day. We went to a party at a neighbors house and a drank a few beers too many and fell asleep. Everyone tried to wake me up but it didn’t work. So they all went into the kitchen and then I woke up and went home to bed. What she was really mad about was because I wouldn’t even give her a ride home. I tried to...

Transcript Tuesday Jan 19th, 1954Hi Ila, Recieved your letter yesterday, and I’m sorry to hear that your Mother is sick, I hope she feels better now, does she? How does ten o’clock Saturday night sound Honey? Or is that too late for you? Doggone it, I wish we lived closer. I mean Chesaning isn’t far away, but I’ll be there Sweetheart. So please let me know huh? Don’t worry Honey I want to see you in the worst way too. I won’t let you down honestly. This doggone ink pen...

Transcript Tuesday January 12th, 1954Hi Ila, Glad you answered my letter so soon, so I better get busy. I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t get the job that you had in mind, I know it must be kind of tough for a girl to get a job anyway. What kind of work are you looking for anyway? There seems to be a lot of work here in Saginaw. So much for that. Gee whiz, Honey, you should know me pretty well by now, I mean the way I think and feel and and everything. I’m not giving you a line...

Transcript Sept. 23, 1953Hi Ila, I’m sorry if I didn’t seem to answer your letter right away. But I’ll try to redeem myself, honest. I would have come over that night but my brother had a date all set for me. But what a snob she turned out to be, never again. Guess what happened to my car last week Thursday? Well it seems that either I, or the guy that rides to work with me dropped some ashes on the seat and set it on fire. The inside of my car was a wreck. There was about...

Transcript Sunday June 8th, 1952 Letter number IIHi Honey, This is just another letter I thought I would send to you. I just finished writing one letter to you not over fine minutes ago. I guess it’s a bad case of Love, don’t you? Just think they are playing my favorite song on the radio, the name of it is “How Soon Will I be seeing You? It’s really a beautiful song, and one I have on my mind all the time. Its really something a guy never can know until the blissful moment it...