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    “The class of 1917 will overcome!” A postcard I found while antiquing with lostsplendor. A follower was kind enough to help me translate the (rather saucy) text on the back:

    “My dear Auguste, 

    I just received your letter from the 6th with pleasure. Thank you. It’ll be one more for the collection. In exchange I send one which is not bad either. Jean came on Sunday and we both went out because [?] his place was crowded. It was raining, we couldn’t go out but we went to the theatre Pathé and we both met two lovely ladies there. “Love, what do you do to us?!!!”. On the evening, we went to the “Cosmo” at eight, where we also met two ladies living at the Coteau (? I suppose it is a place). Jean got a girl and I a divorced woman with two daughter!!! At midnight we were still in their company in the streets! And you thought we shouldn’t be naughty, your brother and I! Jean plans to come [? to Mouchet maybe] . I got a card from Hasse (not sure of the spelling), he is at Chomouh (not sure of the spelling).

    To the pleasure to read you, your sincere friend,

    Claudius.”

     
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    The Field of Cloth of Gold (Camp du Drap d’Or in French) is the the site near Calais where King Henry VIII of England met with King Francis I of France in June 1520.

    The purpose of the meeting was to solidify the friendship between the two nations and the site was given it’s name after the extravagance of both parties trying to outdo one another.

     
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    Type VII U boat

     
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    U251, Narvik, June 1942

     
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    U-29 Norway 1941

     
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    This photograph is of the U-46 returning to home port after her collision with her target, She had fired her torpedo and followed it to the target. The ship, having gone dead in the water from the torpedo hit, was in the path of the U-boat which did not observe the target and was running shallow, thereby colliding with the merchant ship. This put her out of commission for quite some time until the conning tower could be repaired. She was then used as a training U-boat in the Baltic for cadets. By the emblem on the conning tower, she was one of the boats in the 7th Flotilla, based at St. Nazaire, France. This emblem was originally that of U-41, commanded by Gunther Prien, famous for sneaking into the main British naval base at Scapa Flow and sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak. After his later loss in the convov battles in the Atlantic, the Flotilla adopted his emblem as theirs.

     
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    U-203 returning to Brest, July 1943.

     
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