She was with Tactical Air Force (Main) 2, at Bad Eilsen, near Hanover – the same outfit she had been with in Brussels – and Joe was at Höchst, just outside Frankfurt. On 8 June, in one of the many love letters that he wrote to her in two years, he describes his new quarters at the IG Farben building, the offices of the chemical company that had helped Hitler and the Nazis to power and which had held the patent for Zyklon B, the gas used to exterminate the occupants of certain concentration camps. From his letters, it appears that he was doing Intelligence work and related information gathering. I wrote to the US State Department and found that Joe had attended the University of Berlin in the summer of 1929; he must have retained German friends and contacts from that period and would certainly have spoken the language adequately, if not fluently. Anne arrived in Germany on 12 June 1945, in a Dakota, with twenty-one others. We landed at B116, otherwise Wunstof.
