Philippine Islands

March 2, 1945

My Dearest Darling Wife,

Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful awful darn sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dear. Well sug no sweet letters so far today, but I am sure hoping some comes in before the day is over. Gosh Honey your precious letters mean so darn much to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful, awful happy darling and make me feel so wonderful all over. It gives me the grandest feeling when I can get your precious letters dolly. Won’t it be heavenly when we are back in each others arms and won’t have to write letters any more dearest. Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful awful darn much.

I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way now. I have plenty of everything now dolly. Well Honey it has been raining some here today so it isn’t so awful hot. It sure is a relief too from all that heat. It just seems like the sun on this coral is a lot worse than any place else. I sure do hope you get some nice weather now dearest. Gosh Honey it will be so heavenly when we are back in each others arms and can be together every minute of our time, gee but we will be happy dear.

Honey I sure was sorry to hear about your picture not turning out good. Gee how I wish it had been good dear and I could have had it by now. Please get another taken for me darling right away now will you sweet. I want one so bad dearest and Honey you are going to take some snapshots for me to now aren’t you. And darling on Easter Sunday some pictures in your Easter outfit, right dearest. Gosh but I wish that plate had of taken Honey. Please go back and get another one taken darling. Gee your precious pictures mean the world and all to me dearest and make me so darn happy. I’ll [bet] you were sure disgusted when you waited all that time and then found out the plate didn’t take. Honey you said you wanted that for my valentine. You get another dear and get Valentine’s Day up until this month or next whenever I get the picture, how about that dearest. Gee darling I want one so darn bad and some more snapshots too darling. I sure wish I could get some taken for you darling but there just [isn’t] any way to get it done over here. If I ever get the chance I will sure get some taken for you darling. Honey I look at your precious pictures every day and every chance I get during the day, gee but they are wonderful dearest. Honey did you ever get any more made of those two of you in your shorts, if you get a chance have a couple more printed for me in place of those other two dear cause they got wet in the letter and turned kind of brown. Honey dear I am going to be looking for my big picture now and some snapshots too. Please take some for me whenever you can dear.

Honey dear you said you got some pink material to make a blouse for your three piece suit the other Saturday too. I’ll bet it is sure pretty darling. I know you will really make a swell looking blouse to dear. You will have to take a picture so I can see your blouse to dearest. I sure do hope you get your pink gloves now dearest. Have you got your shoes yet dearest. You said you looked for some low heeled shoes but couldn’t find any you liked. Sure hope you have found some by now darling. Honey you said you even got some clothes pins. I’ll bet you sure was glad to get them by them being so hard to get. And darling you said you went to Leaders and looked for a girdle and got two of them. Gosh Honey I am sure glad you found a couple you liked. That sure was cheap to dearest. Sure wish I was there to well you know dearest. I used to didn’t I darling. Most of the time the purse caught them though, right darling. Gosh Honey we used to have such wonderful times and now when we get back together things will be so much more heavenly. We can’t imagine hw wonderful it will really be to be in each others arms all the time dear and be able to do the things we wan to when we want to and how ever we want to. It will be so darn wonderful to not have to leave each other every day like we have ever since we were married dear. We never have spent much over twenty four to thirty hours apart at one time dear. The longest was from Saturday nite to Monday morning dearest, and now when we get back in each others arms it will be for at least twenty one days straight in a row and never having to worry about having to leave each other at a certain time or get up at a certain time or anything like that. Honey dear it will be so awful wonderful and we will be so darn happy. Darling I am sure glad you got your new black gown. That is the one you are going to wear for our meeting, right dear. Then you have another on to don’t you darling that you had with the set at first, if you do dear I am going to see you in the both of them while I am on my furlough. Darling you said while you were home by yourself last Sunday you tried on your robe sets and slippers, but honey I’ll say I will really like them. Gosh how I wish I could have been there helping you try them on dearest. There would have been a lot more going on I’ll betcha dear. Gee but I am happy that you got your new black gown dearest and I know it is really adorable, and gee honey real thin. Remember now dearest gown and slippers. [edited for content] There we will be darling, in each others arms for our first embrace in over two years. Gee darling isn’t it wonderful to think about and to know that we have the longest of our waiting over and that in the near future our day is coming. Honey it will be one of the happiest days in our life when we get back in each others arms and gee everything will be so heavenly.

Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and dearest you know I always will to. You are so darn sweet and so precious in every way dolly. Gee Honey we are so happily married and love each other so awful, awful darn much. Gosh Honey you are such a perfect little wife and I am so awful proud of you dearest. 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 wonderful care of my precious parts, gee but they are wonderful and I love them so awful, awful darn much. Yours are fine dolly muss you so awful darn much Honey. Honey dear you are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world and I love you so awful, awful darn much and dearest you know I always will.

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

Love and more love to my sweet adorable little angel.

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