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British commandos leaving a power plant they destroyed, Italy, WW2, 1945 (lemmy.world)
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[–] les_dennis@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone got some context here? Or we just meant to assume the British just caved in a power plant for the lols

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

"Ah you know, it was WW2, you could blow up whatever you wanted in Italy as long as you said it was for the war effort"

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1985-11-36-173

Afraid I don't have much more information, maybe someone with more patience can dig some up.