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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;prestoncohunter, post: 655942, member: 10899&quot;]I do realize that WW2 militaria isn&#039;t antique but......</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway hope you don&#039;t mind here are a few more pieces we found at my FIL&#039;s.&nbsp; I do wish we knew which pieces where his and which were from in brothers and inlaws.&nbsp; These are going to be a few random pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>First something from the home front, B&amp;O railroad instructions for black out and air raid.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/CbGPqHK.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A box of Motion Sickness pills, box slightly squashed but pills still intact.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/EoYKwfl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This piece we know was my FILs, a daily devotion book</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/HUnowoq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/BqrjoQR.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is a very morbid piece that drives home the cost of war.&nbsp; A cadaver needle (used just for what it sounds like closing large wounds) and a sacking hook used to sew body bags closed.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/8M8kbsM.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And on a lighter note a pair of wool (ouch) swimming trunks.&nbsp; Slightly moth eaten.&nbsp; My FIL was very proud of being a SeaBee and put the patch on about anything he could get away with.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/nw3eAnS.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A very damaged photo of my FIL ready to shop home.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Ginphmq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The same suitcase 75 years later.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/AKgtSHM.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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