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Flag identification help - WWII

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Any ideas? Obviously no way to tell the color. I thought at first it was Free France, but Free France was a shield and cross. This is more like a windowpane.  All I know is it was somewhere in Europe, 1942-43.

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Yes, it's definitely Pompeii - the via Stabiana. This photo is from a slightly different angle, but you can see the arch on the left and the drinking fountain on the right:

 

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/art-various-8527654a 

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@southern*sweet*tea wrote:

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This is the entire photo.

I've gone through the rest of the lot, unfortunately most of the photos are not dated or marked in any way. A few are dated, most 1942-43, and a handful 1944 and 1945, so this could be right after the war in Europe was over. Several photos of bombed out areas, but no identifying marks or anything to tell where they could have been taken. Somewhere in Europe during WWII is the best I can figure.

 

I need to find my magnifying glass to go through all these photos and see if I can see anything to help identify them.


definitely post war, for a liberated country. Some kind of ceremony looks like, involving children. Funny though, seeing the entire picture, seems there maybe more then 4 flags we see. Far left looks like there is another flag just catch the very edge of it. In any case, think we can say certainly it is a photo regarding liberation. Just where and exactly when remains. 

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@argon38 wrote:

Yes, it's definitely Pompeii - the via Stabiana. This photo is from a slightly different angle, but you can see the arch on the left and the drinking fountain on the right:

 

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/art-various-8527654a 


And here it is on video:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kdMglbv78&t=420s 

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Dang, y'all are good!

 

So it's ancient volcano damage made worse by Allied bombs. That would put it sometime after the fall of 1943. https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/pompeii/destruction.html

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.


We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell
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This is such a good animation of the destruction of Pompeii. I came across it a few years ago and just watched it again, it is amazing:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_3ggKg0Bc 

 

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