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Schwere ?Zugmaschine? ? ?
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? ? von ? ? ?
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Thank you!
Thanks, Armin, for succour! I do agree with the caption and must admit that sadly failed to recognise the disjointed howitzer in the Image.Hohlladung wrote: ↑05 Oct 2020 01:43[...]
Photo 2: I read the caption as:
Schütze (Which is IMO just the name of the owner/receiver of the photo)
Art.(illerie)
vom Fenster in .... aus
(So this photo was taken out of the window on a marching artilly unit, sFH 18?)
And what about the 2nd word? You think it´s "Nay"? Doesn´t the letter "a" look different in "Zugmaschine" or "aus"?
I had no luck with Nay either, but it's another possible option.Hohlladung wrote: ↑05 Oct 2020 01:43I put the name of the location in dots, as I am really puzzled about it. The handwriting is sloppy. First I was thinking of Nancy, but I think the town's name ist Nay.
But there are a lot of Nays in France and I didn't find a matching church either.
Maybe members of the French section could Help you with that.
Indeed, and sometimes also mis-remembering the city. I would imagine it would take at least a few weeks before the photographs could have been developed, and possibliy even longer before they were captioned. With the stress of combat, mixing up villages with possibly only an elementary school atlas as a guide would not be surprising.
Thank you very much, Hiltraut - this is definitely the same church! You've saved me at least two or three additional weekends of looking through Google Streetviewnichte wrote: ↑06 Oct 2020 05:19I think the place reads “Rouy”.
I read the other comment as “vom Fenster in Rouy aus”
And I think the church “Saint-Germain” looks pretty close.
Hiltraut
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouy,_Nièvre
It is very interesting indeed! I checked the high command situational maps, and 1. Panzer-Division is listed as being at least 100 kilometers away. One possible explanation could be this:
Indeed - impressive that the shoe shop facade has not changed at all! photo 1 is the house to the left of the shoe shop (see the foundation and the wall in the background).