April 2, 1945 | Unknown
Which is it? 45 or 47?
Use of the POWs suggests '45, which raises the question as to why a 22 year old guy was joyriding around town playing chicken with trains instead of defending the country.
Oops. 1945 for sure.
Now that you mention it, yeah. What was he doing tooling around town in 1945? That’s just another angle to the story waiting to be researched and written. If we had the means to find this guy, I bet he could write a good 1500 words about what happened that night. He was less than 1/2 mile from home, and his direction of travel at 1:30 a.m. was *away* from home. A rainy night.