- Contributed byÌý
- Braintree Library
- People in story:Ìý
- Leslie Fuller
- Location of story:Ìý
- Hatfield Peverel, Essex
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3177218
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 25 October 2004
My cousin Gladys was 18 in 1943 and she met a US airman called Ethan Richards who was based at Boreham Airfield. There was a popular song around at the time with a line: "Open the door, Richard" which us kids used to sing everytime he came to the house and knocked on the door.
He was a very rich man, Gladys married him after the War and went to live in the USA. Later on, he paid for my aunt and uncle to visit family in Australia.
© Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this.
Recommended story
Story with photo