What happened in your town/city during WWII?

CCIP · 10-11-06, 10:43 AM

I was born in Leningrad. I think I don't need to indicate what it means.

(Over a million civilians have died as a result of shelling, bombing - but of mostly starvation in the 900-day siege of the city. Among the latter was my great-great-grandfather)

aaken · 10-11-06, 11:14 AM

I was born in Naples, Italy. Being a big commercial harbor, and since many convoys going to Libya departed from Naples, it was bombed many times by americans and english. When ,in september 1943, the Allies landed an army in Salerno (40 km south of Naples) and Italy signed the armistice with the Allies, the germans took control of the city and started vexing the civilian population. Tired of 3 years of war, hungry, with the menace of typhus, with the news of the Allies advancing towards the city, the people started an uprising. It lasted 4 days. The germans were forced to leave the city. It was the first major italian city to free itself from the Nazi occupation after the surrender.

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I was born in Leningrad. I think I don't need to indicate what it means. (Over a million civilians have died as a result of shelling, bombing - but of mostly starvation in the 900-day siege of the city. Among the latter was my great-great-grandfather) __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

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aaken Planesman Join Date: May 2005 Location: Naples Posts: 188 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 1	I was born in Naples, Italy. Being a big commercial harbor, and since many convoys going to Libya departed from Naples, it was bombed many times by americans and english. When ,in september 1943, the Allies landed an army in Salerno (40 km south of Naples) and Italy signed the armistice with the Allies, the germans took control of the city and started vexing the civilian population. Tired of 3 years of war, hungry, with the menace of typhus, with the news of the Allies advancing towards the city, the people started an uprising. It lasted 4 days. The germans were forced to leave the city. It was the first major italian city to free itself from the Nazi occupation after the surrender. __________________