Army Guy and Red Cross Gal: World War II Through the Eyes of Two Small-Town Hoosiers
During World War II, Auburn attorney Bill Husselman served as a military police
lieutenant with U.S. General George S. Patton's Third Army as it marched across
northwest Europe. Auburn music teacher Mary Brandon served as an American
Red Cross club worker in Italy as Allied troops slogged up the peninsula.
Wartime letters form the heart of Barbara Olenyik Morrow’s latest book, Army Guy, Red Cross Gal: The Lives & Letters of
Two Small-Town Hoosiers Who Helped Win World War II, written in collaboration with Ellen England.
Morrow’s program will track Bill and Mary’s overseas paths – Archival and other war-era photos will complement Morrow’s lecture, and
will highlight why these stories from more 80 years ago still deserve our attention– and why war-era letters need to be preserved.