Rare images of her Father
who died when she was 6

Anne Marie growing up
with her Nanny & staff, pictures

House Staff pictures

Anne Marie's Wars
By the time Anne Marie joined the WAAC she already had personal experiences with
both sides of the World War, Japan and Germany. This occurred again with Vietnam.

With Anne Marie in the US, Earl and Gertrude remained in Indochina until 1935. By then, Earl had seen the Japanese take Standard Oil, Texas Oil Co. and Texaco territories in China and one by one all over Asia and down to the Philippines. As the Japanese occupation began in Indochina, he retired.

Just as they were prepared to leave for the US they learned that Hitler's SS had shot Anne Marie's Grandfather. So, Earl and Gertrude had Standard Oil ship their things to Galveston Texas and they left for Dresden to handle her Fathers Estate. In Germany order to for Gertrude to inherit her part of the Franz Estate she had to prove her lineage. Especially because she was married to an American and had been living abroad, but there had been issues in Germany for several years and it was about to get worse. So in part, Earl kept Gertrude in Italy for safety.

Six years later, the US entered WWII fighting against the Germans in Europe & the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.

Anne Marie joined the WAAC in 1943 for WWII. In 1949, after the Southwest Pacific and Japan, she was on Reserve status but returned to duty in 1950. She was soon assigned to France as the US had increased the financial and military aid to 80% for the French war in Indochina. In 1954 the French lost and the US committed. Indochina was now Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.