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FRANCE 1944
3rd Infantry Division Clubmobile
Liz Elliott and Flo Wick plucking French chickens behind an A.R.C. vehicle somewhere in France. About 25 Clubmobile workers passed over the southern France invasion beaches on August 30, 1944 after the troops and assembled in Aix en Provence at the Grand Hotel des Thermius Sextius for a week before transferring to operations behind a fast moving front line.
Flo and Liz moved forward chasing the 3rd Division by hitchhiking toward the front until finally catching up with the division in mid-September near Lure. Flo wrote that many of the Clubmobile crews were still serving in Italy. She noted how "troops were moving fast ... We [liz and Flo] hitchhiked over France until we caught up with our division – we practically went AWOL from our Red Cross connection. It's a wonder we got through but we went on with the help of many French farmers until we caught up."
photo: courtesy Molly Martin/Florence Wick
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