Berkeley Bombardier of R.C.A.F. Is Home; Has Bride in England
BERKELEY, Nov. 15. A Berkeley bombardier with the Royal Canadian Air Force was home to day after two years of "blasting" at German targets with news that he had married-an ErfSH?tvprl -just- before he sailed for home. That, to Flying Officer Douglas Archer, 23, was the most important event of three years of war. There was, also, the "little matter"- of twice having the seat of his trousers shot out by flak as he loosed bombs from his Lancaster over Germany. "But, I'm lucky didn't get a scratch," declared the young airman, who chalked up 37 night missions in two years attached to a New Zealand bombing squadron. Archer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Archer, his mother better known as Kate Rennie Archer, poet, was over the Normandy beachhead on "D-Day." He helped blast the robot launching bases on the French coast and has flown through the "toughest" of the all-out aerial bombardment of German strongholds. But what he'd like to talk about more than anything else is not the war but the “girl” he left behind him. The new Mrs. Archer was formerly Ann Hilda Stables, 19, of Cambridge, England, daughter of Ernest Stables, official of the British Ministry of Labor, where the bride is a wartime typist. Their marriage at Cambridge on October 21 was the result of a meeting at a dance. Archer, a graduate of Berkeley High School and at former student at San Francisco Junior College, is eligible for honorable discharge from the Canadian Air Force but what his plans are is not yet definite.