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50+ Photos That Capture Honeymoon Of A Couple On Battlefields of WWII

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Ernest Kreiling was an American soldier who served from 1941 until 1945, and he was awarded Bronze Star for bravery. In 1947, he revisited the battlefields of Europe with his wife by bike on his honeymoon. LIFE magazine photographer Anthony Linck followed the couple and documented their strange honeymoon. They visited war-ravaged Europe, including the battlefields in France, Belgium, and Germany on which Ernest had fought in the second World War. The couple climb into fox holes, sleep inside a barn where he once spent the night with his fellow soldiers, ride German and American abandoned tanks.

#1 Ernest Kreiling and his bride standing on abandoned tank.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride standing on abandoned tank.

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#2 Ernest Kreiling and his bride talking with a French farmer during their tour of battlefields.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride talking with a French farmer during their tour of battlefields.

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#3 Ernest Kreiling and his bride standing at the end of bridge.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride standing at the end of bridge.

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#5 Ernest Kreiling and his bride watching debris of plane.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride watching debris of plane.

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#11 Ernest Kreiling looking over a cemetery with his bride.

Ernest Kreiling looking over a cemetery with his bride.

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#12 Ernest Kreiling and his bride visiting with French family he met during WWII.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride visiting with French family he met during WWII.

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#13 Ernest Kreiling and his bride visiting the grave of his best friend.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride visiting the grave of his best friend.

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#14 Ernest Kreiling showing his bride the hayloft where he spent Thanksgiving 1944.

Ernest Kreiling showing his bride the hayloft where he spent Thanksgiving 1944.

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#15 Ernest Kreiling walking on platform of train station with his bride.

Ernest Kreiling walking on platform of train station with his bride.

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#16 Ernest Kreiling and his bride looking at a wrecked jeep during tour of battlefields.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride looking at a wrecked jeep during tour of battlefields.

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#17 Ernest Kreiling and his bride touring battlefield where he took his first prisoner during WWII.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride touring battlefield where he took his first prisoner during WWII.

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#18 Ernie Kreiling gets helmet put on his head by his laughing wife in the foxhole where he first heard an enemy shell during their vacation tour of battlefields were he fought during WWII in North country.

Ernie Kreiling gets helmet put on his head by his laughing wife in the foxhole where he first heard an enemy shell during their vacation tour of battlefields were he fought during WWII in North country.

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#19 Ernest Kreiling and his bride riding bicycles past German grave.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride riding bicycles past German grave.

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#20 Ernest Kreiling and his bride talking with elderly Frenchman.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride talking with elderly Frenchman.

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#21 Ernest Kreiling and his bride talking to local community.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride talking to local community.

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#23 Ernest Kreiling and his bride getting off from train.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride getting off from train.

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#24 Ernest Kreiling showing valley to his bride.

Ernest Kreiling showing valley to his bride.

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#39 Ernest Kreiling tours battlefields with his bride by bike.

Ernest Kreiling tours battlefields with his bride by bike.

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#40 Ernest Kreiling teaching his bride how he washed in socks in stream during the war.

Ernest Kreiling teaching his bride how he washed in socks in stream during the war.

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#41 Ernest Kreiling and his bride overlooking valley where he fought during WWII.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride overlooking valley where he fought during WWII.

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#42 Ernest Kreiling and his bride watching the ruins.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride watching the ruins.

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#43 Ernest Kreiling and his bride at train station.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride at train station.

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#45 Ernest Kreiling and his bride look at the map.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride look at the map.

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#46 Ernest Kreiling and his bride at Sarreguemines train station.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride at Sarreguemines train station.

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#49 Ernest Kreiling and his bride asking local for directions.

Ernest Kreiling and his bride asking local for directions.

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Anastasiya says:

January 31, 2019 at 20:04 Copy Link of a Comment

I think the author forgot to give titles on some photographs.

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John Green says:

January 12, 2021 at 03:03 Copy Link of a Comment

Wonderful if between us we can map his route.

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