Admiralty Islands

September 9, 1944

My Dearest Darling Wife,

            Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful, awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Well dolly no sweet letters so far today but I am sure hoping some come in before the day is over. I received a letter from the folks yesterday evening but that is all so maybe I will get some precious letters from you today Honey. Gee darling your wonderful letters mean the world and all to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so happy dearest and make me feel so wonderful all over. Gosh Honey it gives me the grandest feeling to get your wonderful letters. It will be so darn swell when we are back in each others arms and won’t have to write letters any more Honey. I sure hope you are getting my letters all right now dearest. You are so darn sweet darling and I love you so awful, awful much.

            I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way Honey. I have plenty of everything now darling. Well it is the same old hot day here Honey. We have been having a fair breeze here lately and that sure helps out to. Sure hoping you are having some nice weather at home now dear. Well Honey my sunburn is sure burning today and I expect it will be peeling off now in a few days and then I’ll have to get it tanned all over again. Darling I sure hope you don’t have to much work now. Gosh Honey you have been working so darn hard and with no let ups at all. Maybe you will get caught up a little now since Mary is helping you. Today is Saturday darling and it is about eight in the morning and I sure hope you are still in bed resting. I know you would be if I was home dear. Gee darling it will be so swell to sleep late in the mornings when we aren’t working. We can do whatever shopping we want to do late Saturday morning or early in the afternoon and then we can be ready to go out real early in the evening. Gee darling it will be so wonderful to be together every minute and be able to do whatever we want to whenever we want to.

            Darling you was telling me you got Bobby an airplane for his birthday and you was helping put it together and cut your fingers with a razor blade. Gosh Honey I’ll bet that really hurt to cause a cut with a razor sure does pain a person. It will probably take that a long time to heal on your knuckle like that dear. And Honey you said you burnt your fingers to. Gee darling you sure was mistreating those sweet little hands. I sure hope they are all right by now. Please be awful, awful careful now Honey and take good care of my darling little wife. You are so darn sweet Honey and I love you so awful, awful darn much.

            Honey you said in the last letters I got from you that it was really cool at home. I’ll betcha you wouldn’t of needed that heavy robe on if I had been home dear. And darling you said you had on plenty underneath it to, and what did that consist of darling? Gee darling you are so darn sweet and so precious in every way. You will probably have quite a bit of warm weather this month Honey but it usually don’t get to how. Gee darling won’t it be wonderful when we are back together in our own little home and can do whatever we want to. Just us Honey, no one to bother us in anyway. We will be so darn happy dear and everything will be so heavenly.

            Honey you never did say whether you was able to get the shoes like you wanted. I sure hope you was able to get them dear cause I know you really wanted them and you was really happy if you did get them. Gosh Honey I want you to have anything you want, you know I do darling. Anytime you need anything or see anything you want darling you know your husband wants you to get it. I really love you Honey and I want you to be the happiest little wife in this world. I sure am anxious to get those last pictures you took for me Honey. Gee darling your sweet pictures mean so darn much to me. Won’t it be wonderful when I am back in your sweet arms dear and can tell you in my own words how wonderful you are and how wonderful you look in all your clothes. Gosh Honey you always had so darn much pride and I know you always will dearest. I am so proud of you Honey and love you so darn much. Honey dear how about my big picture, you will send me one won’t you dearest. I sure hope you took a picture for me in those new shorts to dearest, you had better 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 sweet and so precious in every way Honey. Gosh Honey I am so darn lonesome for you and want to see you so darn bad. This has been the longest two years we will ever put in darling and two years that will always live in our memory. Honey I don’t know what I would do if we wasn’t married. It means so darn much to us Honey and there isn’t anything in this world that make two people that really love each other any happier than marriage. We are so happily married darling and love each other so darn much. I know God hears our prayers and will keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible now dearest. Honey dear please take good care of my precious parts, gee but they are wonderful. Yours are fine dearest, miss you so awful, awful much. Won’t it be heavenly when they are back together dear. You are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world dearest and I love you so darn much and you know I always will dolly.

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

            Love and more love is all I can say dear.

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