Browse Items (17 total)

Leona recounts for Danny about her dad watching the baby so that she could go out shopping looking for pepperoni in the Italian markets to add to her care package to Danny. The Italian grocers were out of it until the following week. She jokes about…

Leona questions at length about the cookies that her mom made and she sent to Danny. She knows he is not fond of them, but they were filler in the package and she wants to know in what condition they reached him in case she has to ship them overseas.…

Danny writes his wife after returning from church. Although he did not make communion, he plans to do so the following Sunday and lets her know that he has purchased 2 GI rosaries, one for himself and one to send to her. He remarks that he will take…

Danny has relocated to the new camp and he tells Leona about the physicals and shots he has been getting. He much prefers this to the IRTC. He has shipped some extra clothes home COD. He asks Leona to seal letters to him with a kiss if she is wearing…

Danny discloses that he did not get the mess sargent position and that he will be shipping out the following week. He asks her to please consider quitting her factory job due to the heat and her advanced pregnancy. He thanks her for the tomatoes that…

Leona thanks her husband for having send her a recent photo and she wishes that he will remain in this training camp, because she hates the alternative thought of him going "over there". She tells him how people at work are sharing their pregnancy…

Danny repeatedly reminds Leona of his affection towards her and that she need not worry because the army borrowed him from her and even if they send him overseas, they need to return him to her. He closes saying, as the song goes, that he wishes he…

Danny repeatedly reminds Leona of his affection towards her and that she need not worry because the army borrowed him from her and even if they send him overseas, they need to return him to her. He closes saying, as the song goes, that he wishes he…

Hello darling, I hope this letter will help you to keep from worring. From the moment I arrived things are moving fast. They told me to pack and leave the next day. When the captain told us that our orders were cancelled. Marrying you has all been…

Leona asks Danny how it's going. She hopes that the training slows down so that he'll be able to write her more often. She tells him that that day marks five weeks since the time they last saw each other.