r/WW2Photographs

Comparative photos taken yesterday, to the best of my ability! I apologise for not getting angles 100% - I’m a poor photographer.

A hard fought Allied push to liberate the Vosges Mountains brought them to the first idyllic Alsatian towns on its eastern fringes.

Among them was Kaysersberg, which was liberated in December, 1944 - after bloody street fighting between German defenders and advancing American and French forces during the opening days of the Battle of the Colmar Pocket.

The fighting left some parts of Kaysersberg scarred by artillery and close quarters combat, before the Allies pressed east toward Colmar and beyond it, the Rhine!

I am hoping someone can help me decipher what is written just under "Lt WW Roberts" in the top right hand corner of this $1. Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Short Snorter. It was printed Jan 1, 1943. Also, what is the word written before "Mom" at the bottom of the other side of this bill? Thanks in advance~

① No 31

② ID card

③ Botanko Manchuria Unit 2686

④ Army Private First Class
Harada Masayoshi

⑤ Age 33 years old

⑥ Born in Taisho 1, October 21

⑦ I hereby certify that the right is true and correct

⑧ Showa 9th January 10

⑨ Manchuria Unit 2686 Troop Nakao

Pictures of my Dutch grandfather's POW transfer card to Oflag VIIIC Colditz.

He was at Colditz until 1943, when Dutch prisoners were transferred further East.

He was actually an officer in the Dutch colonial army in Indonesia. Luckily, he was on "home" leave with my grandmother and mother when the Germans invaded. Luckily, because it was the Germans who captured him, not the Japanese. None of his colleagues or their families in the Indies when the Japanese invaded survived...