US Army replaces cake it stole from Italian girl in 1945
Meri Mion was 13 when US soldiers, fighting Germans nearby, snatched the cake from a windowsill in Italy.
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Meri Mion was 13 when US soldiers, fighting Germans nearby, snatched the cake from a windowsill in Italy.
Meri Mion, 90, was 13 when soldiers took her birthday cake as it cooled on windowsill in San Pietro
What should have been an exciting entry into teenhood for Meri Mion was marred by the fact that someone stole the birthday cake her mom had baked for her. Now, 77 years later,...
The cake was presented to 90-year-old Meri Mion in Vicenza, 77 years after one was taken from her windowsill.
More than 75 years ago, hungry U.S. soldiers stole a teenager's birthday cake after one of the final battles of WWII. This week, the Army made amends.