Admiralty Islands

July 27, 1944

My Dearest Darling Wife,

            Hello sweet little wife, how is my darling. Awful, awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dolly. Gosh Honey I got another sweet letter from you today and was I ever thrilled to get it. I also got one from the folks today and two from them yesterday evening. Boy Honey the mail has sure been coming in swell for the past couple weeks and I sure hope it continues. Gosh Honey your letters are all so darn sweet and precious and make me so darn happy. They mean the world and all to me dearest and make me feel so wonderful all over. Yours I got today was the twenty sixth of June so it was not so very late but gee it was wonderful. Honey dear I sure hope you have been getting my mail like I have yours. Gee but it is wonderful when I can get your precious letters dearest. 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 is another hot day here the same as usual. Gee but it will be wonderful to get out of this darn climate. I’ll bet we nearly freeze when we do get back to a cooler climate but boy I will sure be glad when we can get out of here. Gosh Honey it will be so darn wonderful to get back in your sweet arms and we will be so darn happy. Well Honey I worked the morning shift today so I am all through work now. That is really the best shift about getting you’re work over and forgetting about it cause  you get up early and are through at noon so that really makes it all right.

            Honey dear you was telling me in this letter I got today that Pop loaned his car to someone and he wrecked it. That sure was a tough break for him Honey and I’ll bet it is hard to get repairs now to. That is the way it goes when you loan some one else your car. I never did use anyones car like that and never did let anyone like that have mine. I sure hope he gets it fixed all right Honey and hope it doesn’t take to long cause it sure is heck when you don’t have a car. You said you was going to call Helen to come by after you so maybe you can ride in with her until Pop gets his fixed. I sure hope you can get us a car now dear cause it would be so darn much better for you dear and you wouldn’t have to depend on anyone else then. You just keep looking around dear and you will run across something before long I hope. If you could get us a forty one or forty two now that would keep us in a good car until they start making some good ones after the war is over. I don’t think the first ones they make after the war will be so good but they will really have some nice ones after about a year after they start making them. Gosh Honey it will be so darn swell when we are back together and can get our little home and have us a nice car and then have our little family. Remember our twins honey dear, you sweet little dickens. Gee darling we will be so darn happy and everything will be so heavenly.

            Honey dear you was telling me that you had been practicing shooting a gun and that you was getting pretty good. You better hadn’t get to good for me Honey. We never did get to go out hunting like we planned there several times honey but now we can be together all the time we are going to go. I still have those boots and pants that you gave me that time for Christmas Honey and I have never wore them but we will give them some good wear when I get home. Boy a guy sure has to keep your gun in tip top shape in the Army. I have a brand new one I got when I first got in this outfit and boy I have sure spent a many an hour on that thing. Honey dear we will have so darn much fun when we get together and everything will be so darn wonderful.

            Honey dear you can send me some candy now when ever you get time. Gee darling you are so darn swell to me in every way and always send me such swell things. Gosh but that was a swell box that I got the other day Honey and I enjoyed it so darn much. You are the sweetest little wife dear and I love you so awful, awful darn much.

            Darling you was telling me that you had gotten you a new dress, brown and white and real thin material. Boy I’ll bet that is pretty dear and I know my little dolly really looks wonderful in it. Gosh Honey you always look so darn swell in all your clothes, just the prettiest little wife in the world, yes you are dolly. Gee darling you always had so darn much pride about yourself and I know you always will dearest. Honey dear you are such a wonderful little wife and I love you so awful, awful much. It makes me feel so darn swell when you get your new things Honey and t will be so darn wonderful when I am back and can buy them for you. Remember some of the little things I bought you just before I came to the Army Honey.

            Honey dear I sure hope you aren’t working to hard now. In your latest letters you didn’t have much work and I sure hope it is still that way dear. Gosh Honey it will be so darn swell when I am back and we get straightened out and you can quit working. Gee but it will be swell when this thing is all over dear and we can really do the things we want to.

            I love you so awful, awful much and you know I always will dear. You are so darn sweet and so precious in every way dearest. Gosh darling we are so happily married and love each other more every day. Gee Honey isn’t it wonderful when two people that love each other like we do can really belong to each other. Sweetheart you are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world and I love you so darn much. Honey dear I know God hears our prayers and will keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible. You are so darn sweet Honey and I love you so awful, awful much and you know I always will dear.

            Well sugar I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now dearest. I’ll be looking for your sweet letters now dearest. Please be awful, awful careful now Honey 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 dear.

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