I'll have to make another topic - don't want to hijack this one!!

Back to WWII GIs and children. . .

Wisht somebody would tell me there’s a Santa Clause

Beautiful photo of a GI who learns to play cup and ball with children France 1944

Children greeting soldiers their liberators from the 2nd Infantry Division.

13 Jun 1944, France --- France: How To Make Friends---Pvt. Leon Pawinski, of Gary, Indiana, finds a gift of candy a sure way to the heart of this little French girl. Note wooden sabots worn by her mother, The Yank was one of Allied liberation troops advancing inland from the beachhead on the Norman Coast. (Passed By Censors). ---

American Soldier Walton Trohon Cleaning the Face of a Young French Orphan During WWII

The American soldier Ben Pallock would be the first to be entered in Rome in June 1944.

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An Okinawan child, orphaned by the war, shares a foxhole with two marines. April 1945

Soliders of the 101st Airborne relax with local children on the towns memorial to the soldiers of the previous war. The paratrooper on the right wears the markings of the 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion. Note the American flag placed on the statue by some enterprising GI.

A French boy presents a bottle of his family's treasured wine to an American soldier at the wheel of a jeep moving through Carentan.

To Trévières a woman and her children exchange some words with two GI'S. (US Photo Signal Corps).

^{"A member of a Marine patrol on Saipan found this family of Japs hiding in a hillside cave. The mother, four children and a dog, took shelter from the fierce fighting in that area." Cpl. Angus Robertson, June 21, 1944. 127-GR-113-83266.}

^{A US Marine feeds a Japanese child on Okinawa, 1945}

^{Poignant: An American soldier pictured smiling and walking hand in hand with three British orphans who were adopted by his unit}

^{Captain Mac Jurry talking to some native Okinawan boys (July 1945).}

^{Soldier with the 10th Army in Okinawa}

Woops! Please delete this post!

Duplicate post. . .

Oh I have to keep this here, simply for the sake of the hilarity! Marion

Hi Todd ,

Thank you for the photo are great !! Not delete the picture we see that it is a little boy

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