18-05-2007, 12:59 PM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
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 | Visit to Trieste & Venice Hi Just returned from 3 days in Trieste followed by 7 days in Venice. As a "camera-aholic" I obviously looked for some "before & after" type shots and thought you might like to see a couple of pics. The Venice shot was taken in 1945, the Trieste one in 1946.
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE  I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 |
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18-05-2007, 01:41 PM
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| Hi Owen Quote:
While in Venice, our hotel was bang opposite the Rialto Market and I took at least a hundred photos (I kid you not!) from our balcony including this one of the equivalent of an emergency vehicle belting its way along the canal.
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 | |
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18-05-2007, 02:46 PM
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| I Like Tanks.  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| I'm currently addicted to 'then & now' format books and those two comparisons are absolute blinders. Great stuff! (Venice looks like you could point a camera in any direction and get an interesting shot?) Cheers, Adam.
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18-05-2007, 02:48 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| great photos ron!
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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18-05-2007, 02:54 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: House of Bedfords, Perth, Western Australia
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 | Cool pics, Ron. Thanks for putting them on here.
__________________ Cheers Andy Apres moi le deluge But there are deeds that should not pass away....And names that must not wither - Byron HMAS Sydney II - lost with all hands and waiting to be found |
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18-05-2007, 03:56 PM
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| Andy Quote:
 Ron
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 | |
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18-05-2007, 04:45 PM
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| I love WW2 meah!!!   Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Middlesbrough, UK
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P.S. That's a big Lamp post that like! Last edited by marcus69x; 18-05-2007 at 04:50 PM. | |
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18-05-2007, 11:21 PM
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| Top Moose  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| I was in Venice in 1990 whilst InterRailing went there after a few days with friends in Vienna. (Excellent war museum in Der Arsenal, Museum of Military History they have the car & uniform of Archduke Francis Ferdinand from when he was assassinated in Sarajevo 1914 ) We camped on the Lido and watched some Italian soldiers doing drill, caused me to giggle somewhat. Venice is a rather weird place, definately NO jay-walking! Ought to return one-day. After Venice we moved down to Florence. (Where I lost a game of strip-poker and ran around the camp-site naked jumping over tents.) Last edited by Owen; 18-05-2007 at 11:27 PM. |
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