US army veteran reunited with his lost French love, 75 years on
A 98-year-old US WW2 veteran, who returned to France for this month's commemorations of the D-Day landings, was reunited, thanks to the diligent research of two French journalists, with the French woman he had fallen in love with in 1944, now aged 92, but had never again seen after he was sent on to continue combat further east, a long-lost encounter that visibly proved of mutual joy.
InIn 1944, US soldier KT Robbins was stationed with his regiment in Briey, eastern France, where he fell in love with an 18-year-old French girl, Jeannine Pierson, née Ganaye, reports BBC News.
Two months later, he had to leave the village in a hurry for the eastern front, leaving them both wondering whether they would ever meet again.
He kept a picture of her, and showed it to French journalists when he went to France for the commemorative ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
To his surprise, journalists managed to track her down.
