Whenever an American airman escaped or evaded capture in Denmark or Norway, he would be taken to the Legation in Stockholm to be questioned by the American Air Attache and his aides, one of which was my father....
In 2011 I posted a photograph that I found in Herman F. Allen's (my Dad's) wartime scrapbook. A group of mostly Americans were seated around a grand banquet table. I knew it was somewhere in Stockholm, and I knew it was in 1944....
When my parents were in Stockholm during World War II they befriended Count Folke Bernadotte, the nephew to the King of Sweden. I am searching for information about his secretary Barbro Torén....
Since I first wrote about Berns Salonger in 2011 I have been to this famous Stockholm restaurant three times! It was a favorite spot for my parents during World War II....
Skansen is the world’s first open air museum, a vision of what Sweden was like in centuries past. My mother wrote on the back of a photo that it was at Skansen that our father proposed to her in 1944, right at the height...
Lt. Col. Felix M. Hardison arrived in Stockholm in February of 1944 as the Military Air Attaché....