US soldiers return birthday cake 77 years later

The US Army has delivered a birthday cake to a woman in Italy to replace one that was stolen by US soldiers in 1945. It comes just in time for her 90th birthday. Marco Werman tells the story of Meri Mion and the cake that was swiped just before her 13th birthday.

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