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A beloved World War II photo comes to life in a virtual reunion
By Elisabetta Povoledo New York Times,Updated December 26, 2020, 3:41 p.m.
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ROME â Martin Adler was a 20-year-old private first class in the 339th Infantry Regiment in 1944 when he and a fellow soldier went door to door in an Italian town looking for German troops.
They entered a house and saw a large basket. It was moving. Assuming they had found what they were looking for, they prepared to fire, screaming at whoever was inside to come out. Suddenly, a woman ran into the room yelling at them to stop. The top popped off the basket, and three small children emerged.
US WWII veteran, 96, is reunited with three Italians who he nearly shot as children in 1944 when he burst into a farmhouse searching for retreating Nazis
Martin Adler had entered the Naldi family home in the village of Monterenzio near Bologna as Allied forces advanced on the Nazis in the autumn of 1944
After hearing strange noises come from a wooden basket he aimed his weapon
But from it two girls, aged six and three, and a seven-year-old boy emerged
Adler, 96, was reunited with Bruno, Mafalda and Giuliana Naldi over video call
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A former US soldier has been reunited with three Italians he almost shot as children while battling the Nazis during World War II.
Martin Adler had entered the Naldi family home in the village of Monterenzio near Bologna as Allied forces advanced on the Nazis in the autumn of 1944. It was quiet, we didn t know whether the Germans had really retreated or were waiting for us in hiding, he recalled in an online post published by his daughter and Italian writer Matteo Incerti.
After hearing strange noises coming from a large wooden basket, he and another US soldier levelled their weapons only for a woman to run out shouting children! children! .
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