What Wit! Both of you!
Now both of you were right!
Larry, Elizabeth was 1 of the 5 daughters of Guidry. The Jean daughter was born in 1942 before the War and was the oldest. Jean apparently, who is in La., has documents etc. And also, Elizabeth said there was a photo. It was always in her Dad's office - his and thus her whole life - and that meant he had a lot of respect for the person that was in the photo with him.
Christoph, Guidry hated the water. Your thought that Dad spending some summers as a Life Guard on Long Island beaches meant he could have possibly carried Guidre - about 5'10" but very skinny at this time, across the Sieg River. That assumes they took a route across the River.
I called Elizabeth back and confirmed that her sister Jean is going to mail the things that she has on her Dad to Elizabeth and Elizabeth will scan them and then send them to me. Elizabeth will be gone on a trip doing volunteer work for the next week. So we will have to wait awhile. Guidry has 6 brothers that are still alive. Elizabeth said her Dad did not talk much to the 5 daughters about the War, but probably a lot was said to his brothers. We can see where this all leads..Pretty Pretty Pretty exciting and all because of your great detective work Larry!!!! I might never of gotten to this stage - even in my life time - the amount of research you did was staggering and beyond anything anyone could imagine. And you did it out of the kindness of your heart!
And the photo with Guidre and the other gentleman was checked - Dad's name on the back! Thank You Thank You Thank You Larry!!!!
Larry should I alert the Secret Order of the Bunnies.
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