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The Stamford Historical Society, May 21, 2006 through June 30, 2007

Pride and Patriotism: Stamford’s Role in World War II

The Interviews


From Mort Walker’s Scrapbook 1945/46

Sketchbook cover

Images © Mort Walker, All Rights Reserved

On the boat to Naples
GIs’life in Italy
…many peculiar sites to see
…and more strange things to see
Cultural things in Rome
Sightseeing
…there was destruction everywhere
Reminders of Mussolini
The military … and ultimate sacrifices
Overseeing the POWs … and making friends

'Home', Naples Italy 1946

photo of 'Home'

POW officer behind wire fence    POWs eating the daily ration

Mort Walker intervieving a general
intervieving a general

orderlies Heinz Glaeser and Erwin Braune

text of letter from the orderlies   orderlies Erwin Braune and Heinz Glaeser

“…I repatriated all of them, went with them on box cars and took them up to Switzerland
and gave them to the Red Cross, so my job was done over there…”


Guglielmo    thank you note from Guglielmo    Guglielmo and Mort Walker

Pietro and Mort Walker   text note to image at left

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