France swoons over love story linked to Olive Branch
World War II veteran K.T. Robbins, 97, of Olive Branch, holds a photo that he kept for 75 years of Jeannine Ganaye, the woman he fell in love with in 1944 while he was stationed in northeastern France. With the help of a French television network, the pair were recently reunited during a 75th anniversary of D-Day trip that Robbins took with the Collierville group Forever Young. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Enterprising French journalists reunited an elderly Olive Branch man with his long-lost love from World War II, and the story spread across Europe.
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Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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