Philadelphia Liberty Loan Parade, goes on as scheduled, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together; taking place right after the pandemic commonly called the Spanish flu – the H1N1 virus – arrived in the city of 1.7 million people.
72 hours following the parade all the beds in the city’s 31 hospitals were filled. Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US citieswith More than 12,000 people dying within six weeks. More