An aerial view of battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) in Dry Dock No. 4 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 1 May 1985.
taken from fb/War History Online

USS IOWA postwar

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'.