Corporal Wojtek,a bear's war history

https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/08/23/corporal-wojtek-reporting-for-duty/
taken from fb

Corporal Wojtek

This is where the first American flag was raised in the Philippines (Leyte) since the fall of Bataan in 1942. 


Hill 120

Then and Now 

 From Raf Kupplemans  {but also my hometown ;) }

 This is my hometown of Leuven in Belgium, during the occupation and today, the monument in the background is for the murdered citizens of WW1, I wonder if this German soldier would have known the meaning of this monument.The monument stands before the railwaystation of Leuven,scene of a lot of Allied bombing because of it's importance being a railway crossroad and a major repair facility for locomotives.My mothers father worked at this repair shop but was taken to Germany for forced labor as a welder on their trains.The rest of the family moved a few times to safety because of the repeated bombings by the RAF.The place were the WW1 monument stands is called 'Martyre Square'.