#allied troops

[newyorkthegoldenage]

U.S soldiers had the unusual opportunity of welcoming comrades-in-arms from overseas when they greeted a detachment of British troops on February 25, 1942. They drank a toast to future victories together.

Photo: Joe Caneva for the AP

[paulinedorchester]

Passover, 1946: With the troops, in the U.K. and across the world

The war was over, but there were still personnel on active duty (service) far from home. On March 22nd, three weeks weeks before Passover began, The Jewish Chronicle (London) printed this appeal:

A week later, this announcement appeared in the Jewish Echo (Glasgow):

(Image ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved. This paper has only just now appeared in the British Newspaper Archive.)

Meanwhile, Allied forces were still serving in defeated Axis nations where Passover observances made history of one sort or another, as noted in The New York Times on April 16th ...

... and in The Jewish Chronicle on April 26th:

Reports were still arriving as spring turned to summer, as The Jewish Chronicle noted on June 21st:

[unclesamsmisguidedclub]

D-Day 75 Years Later--Saving The World Through the Blood of Patriots

D-Day 75 Years Later–Saving The World Through the Blood of Patriots

Normandy, France – Five Beaches, thousands of deaths. As President Trump and other world leaders came together to remember D-Day 75, the anniversary of the landings, we are reminded that without the blood that was shed on the beaches of France in June of 1944, the history of the world as we know it would not exist. The celebration of those days in Europe will continue through June 6.

D-Day 75:…

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[vintageoculus]

A car of allied troops take notice of a sign on the Western Front in 1915.

[chubachus]

A mounted Australian dispatch rider and other Allied soldiers on a beach during the Battle of Gallipoli, c. 1915.

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