Admiralty Islands

August 19, 1944

My Dearest Darling Wife,

            Hello sweet angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be darling. Well dolly no sweet letters so far today but I am sure hoping that some comes in before the day is over. Gee darling your sweet letters mean so darn much to me and they are so awful darn sweet and so precious. They mean the world and all to me dearest and make me feel so darn wonderful all over. Gosh Honey it gives me the grandest feeling when I can get your sweet letters. Won’t it be wonderful when we are back in each others arms and won’t have to write letters any more dear. I sure hope you are getting my letters all right now dear. Honey dear please don’t worry when ever you don’t hear from me for quite a while sometimes. There might be times when I won’t be able to write you for two or three weeks at a time dear. You know I will always write you as often and as much as possible dear. Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful awful much.

            I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right. I have plenty of everything now dearest. Well Honey it rained here a little this morning and it has stopped now and really hot. Boy it sure does get hot here right after it rains. It sure will be wonderful when we are out of these darn tropics and back in a swell climate. Well Honey I got my guard over with and I am sure glad too. I sure do hate to pull guard over here, it seems like the time will never go by. Ever day that goes by the time goes slower and slower. I guess I work the afternoon shift today. Gee but it will be a wonderful day when this thing is all over and I am back in your sweet arms darling and we can forget all about this whole thing. We will be so darn happy Honey and everything will be so heavenly.

            Well I have a guy doing my laundry now Honey and he really does a good job to. He charges me around two fifty a month but it is sure worth it to get good clean clothes and not have to worry about doing laundry. Gee darling it will be so darn swell when we can send our clothes out to the laundry together. Gosh Honey won’t it be wonderful having our clothes in the same closets and same drawers. We will be so darn happy dearest and everything will be so darn wonderful.

            Honey dear I sure hope you don’t have so much work now. Gee darling you have been working so darn hard and all those orders still coming in to. Please don’t work to hard now darling, gosh Honey you will make yourself sick working like that and it has been so darn hot there too. Please be awful, awful careful now dearest and take awful, awful wonderful care of my sweet little wife. Gee darling it will be so wonderful when I get back and we get straightened out and you can quit working. Gosh Honey you can take me to wok in the morning when you want the car and then come and meet me at nite. Gee darling won’t everything be swell when we are back together and can really start our lives together. Gosh Honey we will be buying everything together and sleeping together and everything we do in anyway will be together. Gosh Honey won’t we be happy when we can do whatever we want to.

            Honey dear you said you got you new make up to be applied before your rouge and powder. You said it was darker than your powder to Honey. Boy I’ll bet that is really nice Honey and really feels swell to. Honey didn’t you have some of that once before I left home. Gee darling you have so darn much pride and I am so proud of you dearest. Remember how I always told you that I never wanted you to lose your pride dear. Honey dear you always took such wonderful care of my sweet little body and always looked so darn wonderful in your clothes dear. Gosh Honey you always picked such nice looking clothes and then really knew how to wear them when you went out. Gee darling you are such a perfect little wife in every way and I love you so awful, awful much dear. Won’t it be swell when we can pick out our clothes together and everything like that dear. Honey dear remember we are going to go together and get us a complete new outfit from head to toe and you are going to pick mine out and I am going to pick yours out. Yes I am Honey, every piece from way down under to the outside I’ll betcha, how about it darling. I guess I will have to get used to wearing some clothes when I get back in obligation Honey. I haven’t worn any shirts and shorts since I got over here, about twenty months now and usually in the daytime a pair of pants is all I wear, that is shoes and socks I never have went without them. A lot of the guys run around when they are around here in camp and don’t ever wear shoes. Gee darling won’t we have a wonderful time, together all the time and doing whatever we want to. We sure have a lot to catch up on to Honey and we are sure going to start making up some of this lost time the first day I get back.

            Sure hope Auntie is getting along all right now dear. Be sure and tell her hello for me dear. Gee but she is a swell person and I sure do like her Honey. Sure hope she stays with my little wife a long time cause she is so much company for you dear and helps you out so many ways.

            You was saying you saw Ruth and Bob and they were just coming back from the doctors office and she was expecting right away. Boy those two kids are sure going to have a family while they are young. I sure can’t understand two people like that. Gosh Honey all their young years are going to be spent at home taking care of the little ones and by the time the kids have grown up some they are going to be a pretty good age themselves. I am sure glad we are like we are honey and I sure think our ideas of married life and a family is perfect darling.

            Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dearest. You are so darn sweet and so precious in every way dearest. We are so happily married darling and love each other more every day. Honey dear you are so darn sweet and the most precious and most adorable little wife in this world. You are so wonderful darling and I love you so darn much and you know I always will dearest.

            Well sweet little angel I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible  dearest. I’ll be looking for your sweet letters now dearest. Please be awful, awful careful now dearest and take good care of my sweet little wife. Remember now dear, chin up and always happy. Tell all hello dear.

            Love and more love is all I can say dearest.

            Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so darn much.