"Smuggle a lion: A Nebraskan's unusual post-World War II" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2020 4:31 p.m. PST |
… mission. ""By all means let them have it," General Dwight D. Eisenhower declared from his Frankfurt office in the late summer of 1945. Months after leading the Allies to victory over Hitler's Nazi regime, Ike put an operation in motion to help Denmark recover its most historic war memorial. It was the 4-ton Isted Lion, a statue the Germans had held as war booty for 80 years. Seventy-five years ago, Colonel Barney Oldfield, a Nebraska-born U.S. Army public affairs officer, spearheaded the bronze statue's repatriation. Calling it one of his strangest experiences in "peace or war," Oldfield wrote that the Isted Lion held the same "emotional, sentimental and patriotic meaning" for the Danes that the Statue of Liberty had for Americans…" Main page
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 PaulCollins  | 20 Oct 2020 5:00 p.m. PST |
Interesting. Thanks for sharing that. |
 ColCampbell | 20 Oct 2020 5:40 p.m. PST |
Yes, great story! A "Monuments Men" operation that took 80 years to accomplish. Thanks, Jim |
 Legion 4 | 21 Oct 2020 8:42 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2020 12:52 p.m. PST |
A votre service mes amis! (smile)
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