If the past is a foreign country, this is your passport.
These pictures, all drawn from the Life Archive, were taken in May 1944, in and around Hyde Park.
D-Day was less than four weeks away. …..
Photographs by Frank Scherschel and Ralph Morse.
Fantastically evocative - the final photo the GI is wearing a wedding ring … so that’s his wife or he’s playing away.
I love old WW II photos! Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant insight into a bit of family history. My father, Danish soldier stationed in England in the 1940’s, met my mum, local English girl and here’s hoping they had moments like this.
My grandmother got into just such a situation, wearing just such a ring…
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Fantastically evocative - the final photo the GI is wearing a wedding ring … so that’s his wife or he’s playing away.
I love old WW II photos! Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant insight into a bit of family history. My father, Danish soldier stationed in England in the 1940’s, met my mum, local English girl and here’s hoping they had moments like this.
My grandmother got into just such a situation, wearing just such a ring…