Some time ago my wife and I gave a camera to my son that had belonged to my father in law. It’s a World War II era Leica. As part of the gift, we paid for refurbishing it, provided he did the work of finding someone to do it, which he did. In the course of getting that done, he researched the serial number, and found that the camera was originally issued to someone in the Luftwaffe. There is no family lore as to how it ended up in the hands of my wife’s father, but it did. He was in the army assigned to Italy, and spent a bit of time there after the war before coming home.Besides the camera, we had a number of negatives my father in law took while he was in the service, primarily in Italy after the war ended. My son undertook the job of scanning them.A great many of the pictures were taken from the air, and aren’t particularly interesting. He took a number of tourist type snaps, some of places we can identify, and some we can’t. He also took pictures of the Italians and his fellow soldiers. I think the people pictures are the most interesting. I’m a bit of an amateur photographer, but I don’t have it in me to walk up to people and ask to take their pictures. Apparently, he did. So, here’s some pictures from Italy, circa 1945 and 1946.
All I can say about this one is that their school uniforms are even worse than what I had to wear at Our Lady of Sorrows.
See what I mean about getting people to pose. This must have been a project.
A bit blurry, but this guy has character.
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