A woman's cake that was stolen 77 years ago by the U.S Army Garrison in Italy was recently replaced in a heartwarming gesture.
The World War II soldiers took off with the homemade birthday cake in 1945 after they were stationed near her home in Italy.
Meri Mion thought she would have the most wonderful cake served to her on her birthday, her mother who had just finished baking it, kept it on their window sill for it to cool off.
That's when the 88th Infantry Division that was battling German forces close to her home in Vicenza, Italy, made off with it to the disappointment of the then 12-year-old Mion who had been sheltering from the fighting in the attic of their family's farm in San Pietro in northeastern Italy.
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