About the Author
Barbara Jane Hannon is the daughter of the couple whose WWII story is told in this book. After her mother’s death, she found a box of letters, telegrams and historic war documents from WWII hidden in her bedroom. The letters revealed a love story between her parents that survived the separation of the war and the documents a harrowing story of events endured by her father. Although her parents, like many WWII survivors, did not talk much about their experiences in the war years, she was able to put together their story from the letters and documents that revealed a love story that transcended the horrors of war. She wrote the book to share with others the patience, resilience and courage of her parents generation.
Missing in Action
Ridgewell Airbase Essex England
About Book
Letters from World War II is the story of my parents lives during the war years that unfolds through the letters they wrote each other while apart. World War II was a time most of us cannot imagine today. Lives were interrupted, dreams and hopes put on hold while the war raged. My parents’ lives were affected by my father’s enlistment in the Army Air Corps. As a navigator on a B-17 bomber, he left for England to fly bombing raids over Germany and my mother did not see him for two years. Shot down, parachuting out of a burning plane and captured by the Germans, he spent 16 months in a German Prisoner of War camp. At War’s end stranded in East Germany and under Russian control, the POWs almost did not get home until a dramatic air rescue was organized to get them out. This is a must read story of one couples lives during the war.
Stalag Luft 1 POW Camp, Barth Germany
