Well, I know Son of an MP, Larry, must be laughing his head off - because he knows the shocked state I am in.
Because separate from the above research, between Today and Yesterday, Larry the Wizard, figured out the details on who my Dad escaped with. Yes, it is absolutely crazy - Larry, the Wizard, found out everything he could on Guidry! In the list of priorities of things that had to be resolved/researched/figured out/... Guidry was right near the top of the list. And Larry, the Wizard kept sending emails that kept revealing more and more information. The big news is that Guidry died quite young (born 1918)/early after the War - 1987. My Mom and Dad had moved from Fla. to the Wash. DC area maybe by 1985 or a little before. So if Guidry had tried to contact them, or his family had tried to contact them, they would not have known where to look. And when my parents tried to contact Guidry - they had no luck. I am not certain when their search began - or if Guidry had moved around a lot - or when they gave up looking - but at some point we now know all contact was lost.
Thanks to Larry I will one day try to locate the nieces and nephews and maybe some relative that remembers stories or has documents.
Now what continued to be extra shocking and puzzling as these email gifts from Larry kept coming is that Guidry was with the 377th Anti Aircraft unit that got attached to the 4th Division (Dad was with the 4th) on June 14th, 1944. Guidry may have been captured a couple of days after Dad. But Guidry was supposed to have been wounded - rear end.
Larry the Wizard figured all of this out!!! If only I knew how to do those funny figures - like Marion does. This is truly AWARD winning research! And all of this is separate from his above entries.
Larry this effort you have made and the work you have done - is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! I am eternally grateful!
Remember how intimidated I was of you! You turned out to be so kind and generous and Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You!
Jean
Jean