Memoirs of a WWII P.O.W. Wife

by Edna Ames, Cheri Ames (Foreword)

In November 1943, after finishing her work as a journeyman welder building Liberty Ships in San Rafael, California, an 18-year-old young woman named Edna Hazelwood went out socializing with some friends at a nearby skating rink. During the evening, a young and handsome Army pilot introduced himself to her by unceremoniously tumbling and landing at her feet. Two months after that "first date," Edna Hazelwood and Vic Ames were married. The spent only one month together as husband and wife before he received orders in January, 1944 to join the European theater, and begin his combat service.The two newlyweds made and kept a promise to write to each other every day they were apart, beginning the moment they said goodbye from two different trains pushing out of a station in California. The promise only broken when a barrage of bullets from a German plane struck Vic's P-38 bomber escort over the fields of France.June 6, 1944, D-Day, and five months after their marriage, Edna received a telegram from the Department of Defense that her husband had been classified as MIA (Missing in Action). She kept a vigil by way of daily correspondence to him in her journal until their reunification on May 26, 1945 - 16 months after their separation and one year after he was interned in 3 German POW camps.This is their love story, detailed by exchanged letters, journal entries, and researched details of events during the war.

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 29, 2021

About the author

Pseudonym of Andrew J. Collins.