About Barbara

After my mother died I was cleaning out her house and found a box of 80 letters written by my parents to each other from 1941-1945-the WWII years and a box of documents including telegrams from the War Department to my mother, flight records from an airbase in England, POW documents in German, War time French Francs none of which I had ever seen before. While I knew my father was a navigator on a B-17 in the Air Corps during the war and was shot down, captured and in a German Prison Camp I could not figure out where the French Francs came from, I had no idea he was in France or how he got there.  I realized I did not know much about the story as my parents never talked about it. I began to read the letters and research the documents and was stunned to learn they were separated for all but three weeks in four years. As I did the historical research on what happened to my dad I was stunned at the frightening things he went through, which was why he did not talk about it.