A Sad Fact Of WW1

[RonR]

Many families had soldiers on both sides...........



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[petopoint]

nice

Great combo photo. I assume big (or little) brother came to the US, enlisted and apparently was on the opposing end with his Germanic family and heritage. It would have been nice to find out more on this dysfunctional family.

[Alan Smith]

Ron,

Do you have any background information on the photos?

[RonR]

Alan,

Sorry to say that I do not.

Best regards,

[billbert]

One of my old neighbors fought brother against brother in WW2...Billbert

[besslein]

Monte Cassino battle was a sad fact for Polish soldiers from first corps,as on German side was a lot soldiers from silesia,that are take in to german army without any choice,a lot of them escape and under another name fight on Polish side.

[meatnveg71]

Nice bit of History here very nice look after it

[snap551]

Family ties

My father in law was a P-51 pilot.His commander led his flight to the village where he was born and let him buzz the village at rooftop level while they circled overhead.Months later his mother got a letter from her sister saying "we saw Richard today" knowing he was a pilot and that no one else would have bothered such a small village.Family gatherings we interesting meeting his cousins who were German pilots and hearing their stories.

[Stephen Stout]

That is really neat information.