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I heard you the first time.
Well, there were 2 teams so I just wanted to make sure for you.
Probably the Boston Braves before they moved to Milwaukee - Atlanta.
And the Yankees beat Philadelphia Athletics before they moved to Oakland.
And the Cubs lost to the New York Giants before the Giants left for San Francisco.
Brooklyn Dodgers, of course moved to Los Angeles. (Broke my uncles heart)
Interesting fact - The New York Mets colors are Dodger Blue and the Giants Orange.
And the Yankees beat Philadelphia Athletics before they moved to Oakland.
And the Cubs lost to the New York Giants before the Giants left for San Francisco.
Brooklyn Dodgers, of course moved to Los Angeles. (Broke my uncles heart)
Interesting fact - The New York Mets colors are Dodger Blue and the Giants Orange.
What wait, the Giants and Dodgers are no longer in NY?
"U.S. Army technician Alvin Harley of the 9th Armored Division receives a kiss from a liberated little French girl on Saint Valentine’s Day. Abancourt, Oise, Picardy, France. 14 February 1945."
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U.S. troops landing supplies on the Marine beachhead at Iwo Jima, Feb 1945.
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American troops looks a number of mines, grenades, and other explosives captured from the germans, c. 1944.-
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Soldiers recently liberated from Japanese POW camps.
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Carentan, 1944.
I’m looking at the picture and the sign on the right has a name of a hotel.
Hotel DU Co…..something, so I did a search for “Hotel du Co Carentan†and found
Hotel Du Commerce Et De La Gare Carentan
The “Et De La G…†is also visible under so I’m thinking that’s got to be it.
I did a search for the hotel and it’s still there.
Next to the hotel you can see a memorial
so I did a search for that and found...
The text on the memorial:
This major town of the Cherbourg peninsula, a key objective of the Normandy invasion, was liberated by the 101st Airborne Division on the 12th of June, 1944.
This memorial plaque is placed here in honor of those “Screaming Eagles†who gave their lives in this campaign and as a token of continuing esteem and friendship for the people of France.
Placed by comrades of the 101st Airborne Division Association.
Thanks again Louis
Hotel DU Co…..something, so I did a search for “Hotel du Co Carentan†and found
Hotel Du Commerce Et De La Gare Carentan
The “Et De La G…†is also visible under so I’m thinking that’s got to be it.
I did a search for the hotel and it’s still there.
Next to the hotel you can see a memorial
so I did a search for that and found...
The text on the memorial:
This major town of the Cherbourg peninsula, a key objective of the Normandy invasion, was liberated by the 101st Airborne Division on the 12th of June, 1944.
This memorial plaque is placed here in honor of those “Screaming Eagles†who gave their lives in this campaign and as a token of continuing esteem and friendship for the people of France.
Placed by comrades of the 101st Airborne Division Association.
Thanks again Louis
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Infantrymen with captured German Panzerfausts near vicinity of Lemgo, Ger. 1945.
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A soldier shares his binoculars with three french girls, 1944.
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U.S. Military Police toasting bread over molten lava from Vesuvius volcano, 1944..
They were just fortunate that Vesuvius didn't toast them!
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Americans drink Hitler’s wine on the patio of the Berghof, his Bavarian residence, below the Eagle’s Nest. 1945
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Euhm, isn’t it more likely the Etna volcano? Vesuvius has been inactive since Roman times (Pompeii and Herculeum) I think?U.S. Military Police toasting bread over molten lava from Vesuvius volcano, 1944..
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Blady
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I stand corrected. Interestingly enough there was an eruption in 1944 indeed: https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-march-17-1944-most-recent-eruption-mount-vesuvius
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Blady
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Intesting war diary of the 340th bombardment group stationed at Pompeii airfield at the time which saw a large part of their planes destroyed in the eruption: http://57thbombwing.com/340th_History/340th_Diary/15_March1944.pdf