My grandmother isn’t in that particular shot, but she was there. She ended the war in a captured SS hospital, and came back home a few months after VE day.
Her future husband would had just landed back in Great Britain after dropping his platoon of paratroopers when this picture would have been taken.
Love this tiny sliver of history buried in a Lemmy post comment. This is why I hang out here, man.
Thanks for sharing. o7 to your grandparents for doing their part in saving the world.
I’ve never heard “o7” before and had to look it up
Based grandparents, part of the Great Crusade saving millions from Nazi rule. o7
So cool!
Ah, for the days when Americans fought Nazis and Fascists instead of electing them as supreme leaders.
I ask from the comm a moment of nostalgia for shooting Nazis instead of asspatting them 😔
