Thread by @marinamaral2

Colorized by me: Boy seated in the wreckage of a building after a bombing raid of London during World War II.

Photo by Toni Frissell.

The boy survived the war and became a truck driver:

rarehistoricalphotos.com/abandoned-boy-…

Photographer Toni Frissell: “I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles—his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble…he was looking up at the sky, his face an expression of both confusion and defiance.

.... the defiance made him look like a young Winston Churchill. This photograph was used by IBM to publicize a show in London. The boy grew up to become a truck driver after the war, and walking past the IBM offices, he recognized his picture."

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By the way, Toni Frissell is one of my favorite photographers. Absolutely love her work.

@STPictures Thanks for sharing! Hope we have a chance to work together someday :)