Tag: WWII

WWII USN Relay in a can
Posted in Flotsam MARKETPLACE Mildly Interesting

The chief is selling stuff online again!

I was messing around in the garage and found this WWII relay in a can! Sorely tempted to take a can opener to it, but…

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A soldier with a split amidship
Posted in Back in My Day The postcards

A draft, aft.

When I was a young un, and I was being kind of a brat, at some point my mother would comment, “John’s just showing his butt today!”

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GIs in chow line Biloxi postcard WWII
Posted in The postcards

Biloxi Chow: Worth the wait?

Here’s a postcard from a young man training at Biloxi to (I presume) his girlfriend back home. Or maybe his girl friend. Back then I…

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Meet the Dutch whimsical WWII postcard
Posted in The postcards

Friendship in war

Not sure precisely what is going on here. The dutch girl and the soldier on the tank seem to be hitting it off…

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Excerpt from WWII editorial cartoon
Posted in Ephemera

Squirrel Hollow or bust, that guy is a nut.

Actually the guy in the fake Uncle Sam get-up works for a competing railroad, and either way, this train is going to roll with at…

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Wartime letter to girlfriend in Chicago
Posted in Ephemera

Disrespecting Rosie the Riveter

I came into possession of some wartime correspondence. This fellow wrote to his girlfriend in November of 1942. Stationed in California, at one point he…

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WWII tiny hamburger stand cartoon postcard
Posted in The postcards

Baby burgers for the INFANTry

Is this guy on a diet or something? Wants Sarge to stop at the tiny hamburger stand for some presumably tiny hamburgers. Seems ironic that…

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WWII cartoon postcard, parachuting in
Posted in The postcards

Vern didn’t have enough to share

Vern had smuggled in some cocaine to share with his pals, in the toes of his boots. But word got around, and all these other…

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Guys at base recreation hall Ft. Lee VA
Posted in The postcards

A friendly game of pool

Here we have some WWII soldiers enjoying the base recreation center. Guys are playing billiards, ping-pong, there’s a card game going on. Except Bill. You…

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WWII Navy relay in can
Posted in Flotsam MARKETPLACE

Isn’t anybody curious?

I got this WWII electronic relay in a can in a box of auction stuff, I think. It was never opened, so I don’t have…

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