{"id":930,"date":"2020-05-08T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2020-05-08T20:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T00:43:44","slug":"travels-of-one-m-sergeant-roy-sper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/travels-of-one-m-sergeant-roy-sper\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels of One M\/Sergeant Roy Sper"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s coincidental that I finished scanning my dad’s photos and papers from WWII a few days before the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the official surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces, but the timing was perfect. The originals will be going to the the Air Mobility Command Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Relizane, Algeria, March, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1st CG 4A Glider, Relizane, Algeria, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Licata, Sicily, Italy, September, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Licata, Sicily, Italy, September, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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“Patton and Sonken, The Glider Guyder”
Licata, Sicily, Italy, October, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, December, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Palermo, Sicily, Italy, February, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Palermo, Sicily, Italy, February, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Palermo, Sicily, Italy, February, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Eastcote Mansion, England, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Ipswich, England, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Normandy, France, June 7, 1944
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Holland, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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My dad designed the Airborne Troop Carrier patch!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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In case it doesn’t look like he had any fun, my dad managed to get leave on his 27th birthday to go to Egypt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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He also got in a few good meals…<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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And some culture…<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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And, last but not least, this what my dad did during WWII…<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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It’s coincidental that I finished scanning my dad’s photos and papers from WWII a few days before the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the official surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces, but the timing was perfect. The originals will be going to the the Air Mobility Command Museum. Relizane, Algeria, March, 1943 1st CG … Continue reading “Travels of One M\/Sergeant Roy Sper”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,132,129,128,131,130,125,126],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airborne-troop-carrier","tag-england","tag-italian-invasion","tag-normandy-invasion","tag-north-africa","tag-sicily","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7v1ZG-f0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}