I'm searching for clues! (Pat DiGeorge)
There are five children in our family, and when we were growing up the story of how our parents met and married during World War II was folklore.
“Daddy’s plane ‘Liberty Lady’ crash landed in Sweden on the day of the first daylight bombing over Berlin. He went to work for the OSS (the ‘oh-so-secret-society’ and precursor to the CIA) where he met a beautiful secretary who worked there too. They fell in love and got married in Stockholm …”
After our Mother died, I was working at their home, cleaning up and clearing out, and I brought home boxes filled with files, articles, letters, and photographs. I began to realize that we had to preserve our parents’ history and put it all together in a book. The title of the book will be Liberty Lady, the name of the B-17 that crashed and in which our Dad was the Bombardier.
His name is Col. Herman F. Allen. Herman lives in a wonderful Assisting Living apartment in Columbia, SC. He is 92 years old, and he is doing great. His memory of the war is gone, however, so we have had to search for other people who were there and who might remember ….
I’m searching for clues.
Mike Potthast
Posted at 20:25h, 18 JanuaryTHis is great. I hope I can help fill in some of the blanks for you during your research. Best wishes on your endeavor.
Kathy
Posted at 20:58h, 18 JanuaryThis looks great Patti and Johnny!
Barbara Ann
Posted at 04:12h, 20 JanuaryThank you, Pat, for all you do. “YOU are the BEST!”
Karen Allen
Posted at 05:39h, 21 JanuaryPatti – I’m so proud of you! I’ll help in any way I can, most probably with sharing details of stories that I remember. Karen
Debi Kruk -daughter of Col. Charles R. Huntoon
Posted at 21:36h, 30 NovemberI am so excited about all of this wonderful work that you have done and are doing. I thank God for bringing us together to help each other. I know that Dad (who just turned 94 on Sat. ) has an amazing memory of the past and some of it already in writing and some pictures. He will need my help and I am so inspired about helping with this. We have talked only briefly– but you can get excited too. I will start with e-mailing some of his writing hopefully by tomorrow.
I also want to invite you to come if you possibly could and meet and interview Dad in person.
You would be welcome to stay with my husband and I who are only 1/2 mile from his independent living apartment. He has a whole box of pictures from the war and many from Sweden. Please consider this seriously–it would be fantastic I know.
Pat
Posted at 21:50h, 30 NovemberDebi, I am excited! Thank you for your feedback. And I will seriously consider a trip to Maine! We’ll need to talk about the weather. 🙂 THANKS, Pat