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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
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/o7-slang