Did Attics In World War Two Have Boxes

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Did attics in world war two have boxes.

Ah but one man s junk can be another man s treasure. Flight sergeant douglas alexander was a tail gunner during world war ii and took part in nearly 40 bombing raids over germany. Surprisingly surviving bombs seem to be found quite often in attics. Cyril mowforth served with a tank regiment in el alamein north africa and germany during world war ii.

Finding the posters when he did was poignant wigdor said. Her experiences as a jewish girl in world war ii europe also come through in the documents. 3 and the 101st engineer battalion. Jewish lessons have stopped for the time being frank writes in one 1941 letter.

When volunteers working at national trust property scotney castle in kent first chanced upon an old steel box in the attic little did they know they had stumbled upon a treasure trove of social history and military memorabilia that would generate an entire exhibition about one man s experience of the great war. He was awarded distinguished flying medal for his service during the. Day who died in 1996 wasn t a veteran but wigdor s family has a history of military service dating to the revolutionary war. Every once in a while you hear stories about people finding treasures of all kinds in the dust filled cobwebbed upper regions of their homes.

Other attic finds most prominently a box of chocolates date to world war ii. With world war ii veterans dying at an estimated rate of 1 000 a day nationwide more than one in 10 of them in california the potential for tragedy is mounting as relatives clean out their homes. Troops there were two major types of rations during the world war ii. It seems like most people have old christmas ornaments and boxes upon boxes of nondescript worthless junk in their attics.

7 a monarch s head. Some timbers did already show some burned edges but for some lucky reason the bomb did not detonate. The c ration for combat troops and the k ration less bulky and initially developed for. Given the fact that the box contains all of its wrappings but no candy the team suggests that someone may have.