Happy Days.....Gone
- Date
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found:
1944 September
- Geography
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found:
Europe
- Language
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English
- Classification
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Information Forms
- Category
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Fliers
- Object Type
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Leaflets (tgm)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joan Carullo, in memory of her father Anthony A. Carullo
Small 2-sided Nazi propaganda flier, Happy Days.....Gone, brought home from the war by Sergeant Anthony A. Carullo, 20, a soldier in the 2nd Infantry Division, United States Army. The leaflet was distributed to Allied troops by the Germans to demoralize the troops. It depicts a couple in civilian clothes dancing above a grave with a combat helmet atop a plain wooden cross. Carullo entered combat in Normandy in July 1944 and fought in France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. He received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal for his exemplary conduct in combat. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Carullo returned to the US in July 1945.
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