A Navy veteran couple celebrated their romantic and patriotic 80th wedding anniversary on the same day World War II ended in 1945, marking a milestone both personal and historic.
Ray Williams, 101, and his wife Ellie Williams, 99, spoke with Fox News senior correspondent Jonathan Serrie to share their “lifelong love story” on “America Reports.”
For most Americans, Aug. 15, 1945 — Victory over Japan Day, or V-J Day — commemorates the moment Japan announced its intent to surrender, informally bringing an end to World War II. But for Ray and Ellie Williams, it represents something even more profound: the start of their marriage and eight decades of partnership.
Ray and Ellie Williams were serving together in the Navy when their romance budded in the midst of World War II.
“I thought he looked good in his hat,” Ellie Williams recalled.
Ray Williams was enlisted, and Ellie Williams was a volunteer with Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), a branch of the Naval Reserve created during the war to integrate women into the wartime effort.
Their courtship was short at just four months, but it was enough.
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