Victory parade, Nancy, 1945

Gift in memory of Joe H. Laumann, Jr.
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Photograph. Children walk ahead of a parade that marches down a commercial corridor. Caption on back reads: "Nancy, the day the war ended." Nancy, France. May 1945

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1945-05-,1945
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Photographs and Belgian pistol from the service of Pvt. Joseph Harold Laumann, Jr., who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 30, 1919. He served with the US Army in the European Theatre on the 14th Hospital Train where he oversaw the watering, heating and minor repairs to trains. He returned home in January of 1946.
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Nancy
Latitude: 
48.700
Longitude: 
6.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Parades & processions--France