Back in 2021 we brought two kittens, Pocky and Strudel, into our home courtesy the St. Clair County Animal Adoption Center in Belleville Illinois. This leads to the question, when did such shelters originate?
By September of 1944, the Western Allies had broken out of the Normandy beachehead, and suddenly and quickly moved across northern France . By September 7th, the 90th division was stretched across the northern sector on Patton’s Third Army’s left, advancing slowly northeast. As they did so the German defenders made a risky attack in an effort to spoil the allied advance, cutting through Allied lines in a surprise action at the small town of Mairy-Mannville.