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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

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

we landed on the tenth of December … first sight … wast wreckage of the war

wast wreckage of the war in the shadow of Vesuvius

the destruction was complete and terrible

ruins   ruins

wreckage

townspeople looking at wreckage

salvaging what's left

a god in the ruins

clearing the rubble

the rebuilding was slow

… while the children played


portrait of an old man

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