HEADQUARTERS, 9^th TACTICAL AIR COMMAND, Germany

    Many an American soldier has been married in the States and then departed for overseas, living his bride behind. With the Craggs it is different. After a wedding in Germany, and a honeymoon on the Rivera, the bride will be returning to the states without her husband.
    First Lieutenant Helen Claire Petraborg, sister of William O. Petraborg, Seattle, an Army nurse was married July 19 to Maj. Ernest Thorpe Cragg, 9th Tactical Air Command fighter pilot and operations officer, in the Lutheran Church at Bad Wildungen, Germany.
    A veteran of 74 combat missions with the 370th Fighter Group, Major Cragg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cragg, Greenwich Conn. was graduated from West Point in 1943.
    Mrs Cragg, a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, did post graduate work at the University of Washington. During military operations she served with the 91st Evacuation Hospital. She has 18 months’ overseas service to her credit.
    Chaplain Julian A Lindsey of Washington D.C. performed the ceremony. Maj. Roy L. Bowlin of Rochester, N. Y., served as best man; Lieutenant Gladys Barns of Boise Idaho, Army nurse was maid of honor; and the bride was given in marriage by Lieut. Col. Francis Parkman of Brookline MA