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Ceri Shaw
Retro photoshoot at the Tin Shed
The 28th Infantry Division from Pennsylvania trained all along the beaches from Margam right up to Pembroke Dock from 1943 to 1945. The most interesting thing about these troops is that Pennsylvania has a large Welsh community that dates back to the late seventeenth century where a large emigration of Welsh Quakers occurred and then later in the 19th century where Welsh coal miners emigrated to the anthracite and bituminous mines. So in a way a lot of these guys that were coming over to train in Wales were likely to be returning home to the land of their forebears.
READ MORE HERE:- https://americymru.net/ceri-shaw/blog/4515/the-tin-shed-experience
READ MORE HERE:- https://americymru.net/ceri-shaw/blog/4515/the-tin-shed-experience
