Halfway around the world, Virginia Beach WWII vet reunites with long-lost sweetheart

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA

Together again, at last.

It was a hot, dry morning on the southern coast of Australia when Norwood Thomas and his son, Steve, reached their destination halfway around the world.

After 70 years – and four flights, including one 16-hour marathon over the Pacific – the 93-year-old Army veteran from Virginia Beach was about to see his long-lost World War II sweetheart.

He and his son finished the final leg at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, Adelaide time – 15½ hours ahead of the clocks back home.

Weary but grinning, they climbed into a waiting vehicle and drove to a beachfront hotel, where 88-year-old Joyce Durrant Morris was waiting.

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