Just to make it clear for all non-Irish, it is Saint Patrick’s Day or St. Patrick’s Day. Not Paddy’s Day, St Pat’s Day, St Paddy’s Day, etc.
These are just some impressions of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations during World War II. Above is a photograph of St Patrick’s Day in Brooklyn, 1943.
St. Patrick was a Christian missionary who used a shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity of Christianity—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He said the three leaves stand for the three beings of God, and the stem shows how they unite into one.
Shamrock presented to members of the 31st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles in Belfast in 1942.
The wife of Lieutenant Colonel R.A. Heard M.C. presented shamrocks to recruits at the 25th Infantry Training Centre in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, 1943.
Different events of St Patrick’s Day during World War II
On March 17, 1944, Mount Vesuvius in Italy began an eruption that, over the ensuing week and a half, rained down rocks the size of basketballs, covered some areas with up to a meter of ash, and released a slow-moving wall of volcanic rock, lava and debris that crushed and burned everything in its path. The US newsreels recorded the eruption and the evacuation of San Sebastiano’s residents, who, assisted by Allied soldiers, piled household goods and belongings onto wagons as lava advanced toward the village.
Also on March 17, 1944
U Boat 801 was sunk in the Atlantic west of the Cape Verde Islands, in position 16.42N, 30.28W, by a Fido homing torpedo from two Avenger and a Wildcat aircraft (VC-6 USN) of the US escort carrier USS Block Island and depth charges and gunfire from the US destroyer USS Corry and the US destroyer escort USS Bronstein. 10 dead and 47 survivors.
Anyway, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all.
Sources
https://uboat.net/boats/u801.htm
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-march-17-1944-most-recent-eruption-mount-vesuvius
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