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To: redgolum

My great grampy was in the Pacific, including Manila. UNtil today, a katana was passed down to our family and came from that battle. Read Band of Brothers and it wasn’t a joke, GI’s were sending loot back to the US like they were mailing letters.


9 posted on 08/11/2021 8:31:50 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: max americana

Indeed. Body parts as well.

Had a music teacher in elementary school that had a ‘ring’ from the femur of a dead kamikaze pilot that hit his ship. A sailor found the hunk of leg in a bulkhead some weeks after the attack, cleaned it up and sold sections as souvenirs.

He brought that and several pieces of the aircraft skin to show us fifth graders.

Different times.


13 posted on 08/11/2021 8:38:51 AM PDT by larrytown (No matter how much the cats fight there always seems to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: max americana
Yeah, no kidding - I had a neighbor when I was kid whose sons would bring some of his souvenirs for us to play war with, including a fully-functional Arisaka rifle and a Japanese Nambu pistol -and two Samurai swords. Very lucky nobody was killed with those swords - they were as sharp as razors!

Another friend of mine back then's dad had left the family and we were fooling around with a trunk of his we found in the rafters above their garage and we found over 50 Luger pistols his dad had brought back from his time in Europe. Being good kids, we closed the trunk back up and told his mom what we found.

17 posted on 08/11/2021 8:42:14 AM PDT by Chainmail (Frater magnus te spectat)
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To: max americana
My great grampy was in the Pacific, including Manila. UNtil today, a katana was passed down to our family and came from that battle. Read Band of Brothers and it wasn’t a joke, GI’s were sending loot back to the US like they were mailing letters.

One of the stories from Band of Brothers was one of the soldiers obsessed with getting a Luger. It had a tragic ending.

23 posted on 08/11/2021 8:47:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: max americana

There was a old guy I used to know at the range.

One day, he showed up with a lot, and I mean a lot, of K98’s

Some were very fancy.

“Took them off of Goering’s castle. He didn’t need them anymore!”

Had a few daggers also that he brought to a swap meet looking from some stuff from the Pacific theater.


26 posted on 08/11/2021 8:57:55 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: max americana
"Read Band of Brothers and it wasn’t a joke, GI’s were sending loot back to the US like they were mailing letters."

It's called the spoils of war. I'm sure there's plenty of Nazi memorabilia in Russia, France, England, Canada, New Zealand, etc., as well.

43 posted on 08/11/2021 11:37:03 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: max americana

“GI’s were sending loot back to the US like they were mailing letters”

I think Radar got a jeep that way.


55 posted on 08/12/2021 6:37:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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