Ottawa man recreates his father’s World War II photo on a rooftop in Furth, Germany

It’s photo 81 years in the making.Gary Schuett, an Ottawa resident, paid homage to his father this summer with a pilgrimage to the same location he was at during World War II in Germany.As Allied forces suffocated the Nazis in 1945, Francis Schuett made his way through western Europe to Furth, Germany with the 343rd Ordnance, and atop the site seen in this photograph.Aware of the picture and looking ahead to an upcoming vacation in nearby Nuremberg, Gary wanted to make his way back to that same spot, eight decades later. “My son kind of got me started on this when he found out we were going to Nuremberg, he brought it up to me that my dad had been right near there,” Gary said. “Then my daughter helped me by mentioning to me about her father-in-law’s cousin, and everything fell together with making this happen.”The process of fulfilling that wish took months of research and coordination with his family to ensure that the location was a match and the photo was feasible. Gary said it help