Lois' note on back of other photo from same day: "Germany April 10 John & I at Nurse's quarters. it was a beautiful place. We were in quraters where German officers wives had lived. My luggage arrived so I had shirt & slacks instead of fatigues. Notice my SPAM - ribbon & star."
Lois' note on back "Germany April 10 John & I at Nurse's quarters. it was a beautiful place. We were in quraters where German officers wives had lived. My luggage arrived so I had shirt & slacks instead of fatigues. Notice my SPAM - ribbon & star."
War was over in Europe. Lois was back with the 241st Gen . Hosp. in Sissone France near Reims. John took a train from Mainz, Germany to pick up Lois , and then they were going to Paris. John got off at wrong station, Soissons, past Sissone, and had to go back to get her! They spent six days in Paris, Lois stayed with the Red Cross hotel. John got a room at a nice hotel on the Champs-Elysees where he saw Gen. DeGaulle in the lobby.
In March1945, Joh's 70th division was put in reserve at Mainz, Germany after being active since Christmas 1944. Lois' letters were dated just several days earlier, so he knew she was near (the Army censored locations in letters). He fond out where the 30th Field Hospital was stationed and drove there with his jeep driver, about 100 miles, near Kassell, Germany. He surprised her, still in full battle gear, she did not recognize him. During their visit, a German fighter jet, an Me262, dropped a bomb on the town and strafed it.
In unknown hand: "Notice the new Ford demonstration". (Think her Grandfater Joh was a Ford dealer). In Lois' hand: "Rec'd Oct 7, 1978. Year 1926 or 1925. Baby Lois Anne Hansen (now Copeland) age 2. Holding baby a great grandmother age 61 Clara Anne Forney Thacker. Her son - the - the grandfather - John D. Thacker, young age 44. The mother - Mabel Alrene Thacker Hansen, age 24. "
