This little booklet was created in 1945 by the people of PLZEN, CZECHOSLOVAKIA as a Thank You gift to the American Army soldiers who disarmed the last garrison of Nazi troops and liberated the city on May 6,1945. I wish I could show you all the pictures too, but the message they wrote sums it up best. The citizens of this town were not yet aware that their freedom was short lived, as their country was soon swallowed up by Stalin and would spend nearly the next 45 years under communist rule.
Dogdaddy
PS- I DIDN'T MENTION THE UNITS INVOLVED IN THIS BECAUSE NONE WERE MENTIONED, BUT THE INSIGNIA SHOWN ON AMERICAN UNIFORMS FEATURES A INDIAN CHIEF'S HEAD IN THE CENTER OF A LARGE RED STAR. I'M SURE ONE OF YOU CAN HELP ME OUT ON THE ID'ING.
Last Night I took my 13 year old Great Nephew to see 'Defiance', which just came out last Friday. This movie is based on a true story about the Bielski Brothers, who organized the Jewish resistance in the forests of "White Russia" in 1941, shortly after the Nazis invaded. I'm not going to say much more about the movie's story line except to tell you how much we both enjoyed it. I was already aware of this story from a History Channel program and I was not disappointed in the Hollywood treatment of it.
While looking at this photo taken in the Polish Getto in 1941 of those desperate souls, the youth who has died from starvation lies in the mddle of the road, his fellow Countrymen are unpassive to this as they have seen it all before, the mother grips her childs hand frimly and ushers her by. But it's the little girls eyes that stare out seeing nothing as her mother, both so smartly dressed compared with those around them, guides her past this unhappy scene.
