This telegram informed widow Maria Sprick of Lake City, Minn., and her other children that her eldest son, Edward Henry Sprick, was sufficiently healed of his Normandy wounds to plunge right back into the fighting in September 1944 in France, Luxembourg, then Germany. (Now, was that
good news, or
bad news?)
Uncle Ed, right, posed with three buddies in Rheims, in northeastern France. Rheims was a "rest area" for weary Allied soldiers during the fighting, and the city in which the Germans surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945. We're not sure when this photo was taken, but judging by the happy looks on the GIs' faces and the combat medals on their newly clean uniforms, it was around that time.
This telegram informed widow Maria Sprick of Lake City, Minn., and her other children that her eldest son, Edward Henry Sprick, was sufficiently healed of his Normandy wounds to plunge right back into the fighting in September 1944 in France, Luxembourg, then Germany. (Now, was that good news, or bad news?)
Uncle Ed, right, posed with three buddies in Rheims, in northeastern France. Rheims was a "rest area" for weary Allied soldiers during the fighting, and the city in which the Germans surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945. We're not sure when this photo was taken, but judging by the happy looks on the GIs' faces and the combat medals on their newly clean uniforms, it was around that time.
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