The day the “Siblings in Sweden” went to Skansen we were on a mission to find the garden where our father proposed to our mother in late September 1944. I had found a tiny snapshot in their wartime photo album that read “taken in...
Favorite (1948) A war veteran attending college on the GI bill and his pregnant wife have a hard time finding a place to live....
My parents spent New Year’s Eve 1944 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. In 1898, this gilded hall was created, and it is much the same today. According to what I have read it was modeled after the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles....
One of the highlights of my trip to New Orleans for the 306th Bomb Group reunion was a visit to The National WWII Museum, just a few blocks from our hotel....
The 306th Bomb Group Historical Association held its annual reunion the weekend of October 3-6 in New Orleans. Our hotel was just a short walk from the National WWII Museum....
In 1944 and 1945, while World War II was raging all around neutral Sweden, our parents Herman Allen and Hedvig Johnson often dined at the Grand Hôtel. Not only was it the finest hotel in Stockholm (one of the finest in Europe!) it was headquarters...