In 1943, Sergeant Lloyd Hatch Strausz met, Corporal Bertha Singerman in a 100-bed station hospital at Perrin Field Air Force Base in Sherman, Texas. Their love story documented in detail in Bert’s 37 handwritten letters home sent to her sister, Rebecca in Peabody, Massachusetts, explained her interest in her fiancé – “Lloyd hangs around me a lot and people are starting to notice. There’s something about him that I like, but I just can’t explain it. He’s Jewish, although not ‘too Jewish’ and he’s very funny, not odd funny, but makes me laugh regularly.”
