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Europe--Description and travel, Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett--Journeys--Europe.
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1995
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D921.A48 1995eb
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914.04/555
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Europe--Description and travel, Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett--Journeys--Europe.
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Six Years after D-Day
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Six Years after D-Day
Cycling through Europe
Marie Bennett Alsmeyer
Introduction by Linda Grant De Pauw
University of North Texas Press Denton, Texas
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1995 Marie Bennett Alsmeyer
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition 1995
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The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48- 1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett. Six years after D-Day: cycling through Europe / Marie Bennett Alsmeyer. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-929398-82-3 1. EuropeDescription and travel. 2. Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett JourneysEurope. I. Title. D921.A48 1995 94-48004 914.04'555dc20 CIP
Cover and interior design by Amy Layton
All photographs provided by Hank and Marie Bennett Alsmeyer
Page v
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
vi
Introduction
by Linda Grant DePauw
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A Crazy Senseless Thing to Do?
1
Etienne
7
Aboard the Pont L'Evgue
15
At Sea
20
Ville Lumire
27
From Faust to the Folies!
36
The Village of Draveil
47
"Hee-Haw" and "Hadacol"
60
The People of Vimoutiers
72
Normandy
81
The Roads Less Traveled
90
Jolly Olde England
102
Mrs. Philips' B&B
110
Bury St. Edmunds
122
Aalsmeer or Alsmeyer?
131
Riot in St. Denis
142
Booking Passage
153
Return to Reality
158
Afterword
164
Epilogue
167
Page vi
Acknowledgments
This book is written in loving memory of Mary Grillet of Draveil, France, who, with her family, encouraged us to leave South Texas and see what the rest of the world was all about.
I am also indebted to my husband, Henry, who corrected sentence structure and errors in subject-verb agreement in addition to keeping a watchful eye upon The Chicago Manual of Style. But more especially, I will be forever grateful for his unending "routes et grandes curiositis" for those roads less traveled.
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Introduction
The movement to recover the military history of women who served in World War II owes a great deal to Marie Bennett Alsmeyer. Forty years after her service, she published her classic memoir, The Way of the WAVES (Conway, Arkansas: Hamba Books, 1981). Although two WAVES had published books during the war years, Alsmeyer was the first Navy enlisted woman to write as a veteran. She did not tell her story publicly until forty years after she entered the military.
Today we wonder at the long silence during which women veterans of the greatest war in history were invisible and forgotten. Military service is not just for men anymore. Rigid gender distinctions have faded as Navy women fly combat missions over Iraq and a woman captain commands the Star Trek starship Voyager in the world of popular fantasy. Yet as recently as fifteen years ago, when Alsmeyer's pioneering volume appeared, most women who had served in uniform hesitated to identify themselves publicly as veterans. Whatever official pronouncements by recruiters might be, the
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