Ansichtkaarten van Nijmegen met afbeeldingen van overblijfselen van de gebouwen na het bombardement en op de achterkant commentaar in het Engels

ansichtkaarten van Nijmegen met afbeeldingen van overblijfselen van de gebouwen na het bombardement en op de achterkant commentaar in het Engels "St. Franciscuskerk Nijmegen - Catholic church" "de overblijfselen van het warenhuis van der Borg te Nijmegen - the rest of the big shop" "Mariënburg Nijmegen - this is burned by the Germans in september 1944" "gezicht op Canisiuskerk Nijmegen - Catholic church built in 1868. Was not so old. This church is nearly finished again. It was a very nice church inside" "St. Canisiuskerk Nijmegen -the church while tey are repaired" "Pauwelstraat Nijmegen - This street was also small. Nearly all the people are dead. A bomb is fallen" "Lange Burchtstraat Nijmegen - two nice hotels in this street" "V&D markt Nijmegen - this is also a big shop, no more now, repaired in mai 1946" "Lange Burchtstraat hoek Wintersoord Nijmegen - this street was not so nice, only the shops were very big. They were built in 1938 and in 1944 away" "een der 60 totaal verwoeste straten van Nijmegen - one from the sixty streets which are distroyed" "Hertogstraat hoek Wintersoord Nijmegen - a street with all nice shops" "winkelflat Kelfkensbosch Nijmegen - all high shops , here has lived rich people" "John Griffith James was on active service with a British regiment in the Netherlands during WW II. At some stage he and his fellow officers were given specific duties; some went Arnhem and my uncle to Nijmegen. While he was befriended bij a Dutch family, he fell in love with the daughter of the family. After the war his parents were so grateful that the sent frequent letters, cards and gifts to the family who returned the generosity. My mother died last year at the age of 96, she kept many of these things." "deze kaarten zijn gestuurd door een Nijmeegs gezin naar Bribe, de familie John Griffith James (1916-1979) die tijdens de oorlog in Nijmegen bevriend raakte met het gezin. De kaarten zijn gekregen van de nabestaanden (Sian James)" de volgende kaarten zijn beschreven op nummer 5.3.31047