Tag: WWII
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…
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!”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
