![]() ![]() I found happiness and we got married and I told my wife I was half American. Forces as a boy entrant to see the World.Īfter leaving the services and feeling unsettled, I decided to visit my girlfriend in Gibraltar, packing my suitcase and unknowingly leaving England for the last time. I was then told that my biological dad was an American GI and my adolescent world began to turn upside down. My mum met and married my adopted dad when I was 5 years but I was always left with my grandparents until I was 11 years old.I then lived with mum and at the age of 14 years changed my name from Probst to Baldwin to become a new family. When he denied I was his, he was quickly posted away and soon sent back to the States, as it turned out he was already married at 16 years. ![]() A romance blossomed and my mother fell pregnant with me and I came along in April 1945. ![]() He was billeted at Torquay and practiced around the Devon area and told her he had been in the D-Day landings. On a summer’s day in 1944 a Dakota overhead spilled out paratroopers training and an 20 year old GI called Robert Probst landed near my mother. ![]() My mother, then 17 years old joined the Land Army and was sent to the countryside working on farms and in the fields. When my family moved out of London during the blitz down to Paignton, Devon, with sickness caused by bombing, it was more comfortable than their Anderson shelter in the back garden. ![]()
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