Norma Little on her wedding day 8 Nov 1944 Reproduced courtesy Murray Little
In May 1942 Lloyd Little was an engineering officer attached to a troop carrier mission in New Guinea. He flew down to Sydney for some rest and recreation where he met Norma Murray. When they married in 1944 he was stationed in Port Moresby and only just made the wedding after a stint in hospital with jaundice.
Norma only saw Lloyd twice again after their wedding before he followed General MacArthur up to Tokyo as part of the army of occupation. When she applied for passage to the States she was already five months pregnant with her son Murray. Unable to secure a place on one of the bride ships, Norma arrived in New York on an English freighter, the CITY OF DURHAM on 7 March 1946. The journey had taken seven weeks.
Norma and Lloyd had two children, Murray (b 1946) and Joanne (b 1953). They lived in New Hampshire, but travelled extensively during Lloyd’s Air Force career. Norma was interviewed in 1991 at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. Norma sadly passed away on 15 October 2005. Her children live in New Hampshire.