After a 10,000-mile flight from Virginia to Australia, a World War II U.S. Army veteran finally reunited with his wartime girlfriend Wednesday after recently reconnecting online.
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Mr Thomas, 93, has just been reunited with Joyce Morris, 88, after travelling to Adelaide from his United States home in Virginia.
Joyce: “I have your picture framed on my bureau and I say good morning to you every morning”.
Morris could be heard saying to Thomas: “we are going to have a wonderful fortnight together”.
93-year-old Norwood Thomas and 88-year-old Joyce Morris reunites after over 70 years. When the war ended, he returned to the U-S, she moved to Australia.
After the war, the pair wrote letters to each other, and Thomas even asked Morris to come to America and be his wife. They married other people, and eventually Thomas was widowed and Morris divorced.
Thomas connected with Morris over Skype, before meeting her in person again after 70 years.
Then a year ago, Morris asked one of her sons to look for her former flame, and they found his name in a Virginian-Pilot article about D-Day.
13News Now has been following the love story of Norwood Thomas and Joyce Durrant for months now.
Thomas was expected to stay in Adelaide for two weeks, allowing the couple to spend Valentine’s Day together.
Recalling how they met in 1944, Mr Thomas said: “My friend and I used to go down to London on weekends between our military duties”.
Thomas’ son Steven and Morris’ son Robert had set up the call for their parents. Of their relationship, Thomas said, “It very rapidly evolved into something from attraction to a very strong affection”.
“And say I’ve missed you to that photo”.
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She recalled: “We snogged, as you call it, when it was dark and nobody could see us”. But she never thought she’d see him again. “I have no idea if there’ll still be romantic feelings”.
