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Too Soon, we Had to Leave our "Shan-Gri-La"
- Creator
- Cobb, John Candler, II, 1919-2016
- Creation Date
- 1944/01
- Who
- WWII driver
- When
- WWII
- Where
- Italy
- license
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Photo: John C. Cobb, courtesy AFS Archives, NY.
The girl on the left was an adopted refugee from a demolished town nearby. Pollutri had miraculously been spared from the ravages of the retreating German Army. Now we had to leave this oasis and return to the War-torn reality.
Location: View from the ancient walls of Pollutri.