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Gruesome but it was bound to happen this way.

Bombed by whom? It is fairly wrecked!

It's in the World War II set, so most likely the allies as they took France back from the Germans.

falconn67 This was taken in Denmark so not France but you are most likely right although as the set features the Danish resistance it may have been retaliatory by the occupying Nazi's?

This must be the Jeanne D Arc School it was hit by a burning RAF aircraft and other`s bombed it thinking it was the target 86 children were killed and many Nuns Operation Carthage was asked for by the Danish resistance to free captured members and destroy gestapo records en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Carthage

The Institut Jeanne d’Arc, also known as Den Franske Skole, was a French-language, private Roman Catholic school at Frederiksberg Allé 74 in the Frederiksberg district of central Copenhagen. Designed by the Danish architect Christian Mandrup-Poulsen (1865–1952), the school was established on 1 August 1924 by the Danish Sisters of St. Joseph, who arrived in Denmark in 1856. They had already established another school, the Institut Sankt Joseph in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen in 1858. The three-winged red-brick building, consisting of four storeys and a mansard, housed 29 classrooms. On 21 March 1945, in response to a request by the Danish resistance that the Copenhagen Gestapo headquarters should be destroyed, 20 RAF Mosquitos left for Copenhagen on a mission designated Operation Carthage. The target was Shellhuset (The Shell House) on Kampmannsgade in the city centre which housed the Gestapo. One of the Mosquitos in the first of three waves hit a tall electric pylon, causing it to crash into a garage close to the school. Two of the Mosquitos in the second wave mistook the ensuing fire as their target and dropped their bombs on the French School, killing 86 children and 16 adults and wounding 67 children and 35 adults. The school was destroyed by the bombing and the remaining buildings were demolished. Today, six apartment buildings stand on the site (Frederiksberg Allé in front of Frydendalsvej). The remaining pupils were transferred to the Institut Sankt Joseph which was subsequently expanded. In 1953, a monument created by Max Andersen (1892–1972) was erected on the site. The monument depicts nun comforting two terrified children. In 1954, a new French School was established in Copenhagen by the French government, in cooperation with the Danish government. This new school has no religious affiliation but reports to the Ministries of Education of France and Denmark (for the French and Danish portions of the curriculum respectively). Now known as the Lycée Français Prins Henrik, it is located at Frederiksberg Allé 22A and boasts 800 pupils.

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Lovely and very interesting shot! I love the old motorcycles with the drop handlebars. Interestingly the front tyres are in very good condition either through lack of fuel so therefore they were not much used or they were stored up in a depot during the war. Those young men in the background on the left appear to be wearing military style gaiters/leggings. Great shot, thank you for posting!