Featured Couple different WW2 pieces

I do realize that WW2 militaria isn't antique but......

Anyway hope you don't mind here are a few more pieces we found at my FIL's. I do wish we knew which pieces where his and which were from in brothers and inlaws. These are going to be a few random pieces.

First something from the home front, B&O railroad instructions for black out and air raid.


A box of Motion Sickness pills, box slightly squashed but pills still intact.


This piece we know was my FILs, a daily devotion book



And here is a very morbid piece that drives home the cost of war. A cadaver needle (used just for what it sounds like closing large wounds) and a sacking hook used to sew body bags closed.


And on a lighter note a pair of wool (ouch) swimming trunks. Slightly moth eaten. My FIL was very proud of being a SeaBee and put the patch on about anything he could get away with.


A very damaged photo of my FIL ready to shop home.

The same suitcase 75 years later.

 

Thank you for sharing!

 

Cool stuff.

 

So interesting.

Debora

 

Neat! I think the needles were designed for upholstery rather than anything morbid. That wouldn't preclude their use for other purposes. I have all but identical ones floating around somewhere.

If you were to sell that B&O piece it might well go through the roof. Collectors still pay money for unusual railroad-related items.

 

@evelyb30 you are correct on the sacking hook, they were used for sails, feed bags and upholstery. The needle however is marked USN MD and has been positively identified by a RN as a cadaver needle. Both pieces where stored together with the uncle who was a medic's things. So that is where I was making the assumption.

 

Sounds conclusive.