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I found this on the Ancestry.com bulletin board while researching Swanson canteens today. I was quite surprised to find that they are also a Militaria research reference source.....

 

Lost and Found

World War II US Canteen

Laura

 

Classification:  Query

Surnames:  swanson

 

I am a Chinese girl,

 

I got a canteen from an elder lady, that is a canteen , which pressed at the bottom "US SWANSON 1945", I am looking for the owner of the canteen.

 

I dont't know if anyknow know this "swanson"

 

Re: World War II US Canteen

 

Jim
Classification: Query
Surnames:  The USS Swanson was a navy destroyer during world war II.  It was commissioned in 1940. The stamp on the canteen is for the ship, not a person. For more information on this ship, go to www.google.com, and type in USS Swanson.
 
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Hope this is helpful.

 

 

Re: World War II US Canteen
Bob C
Classification: Query
Surnames:  Swanson

 

Laura,

 

I think maybe the canteen may have belong to a person named Ursel Swanson who lives in Columbas Georgia. I think if it had been a US Navy canteen it would have been stamped USN. I think the owner of the canteen put his own name there.

 

Bob

 

 

 

Wow,

 

I sure hope they can find Swanson and return this priceless wartime artifact to him.

I suggest using a magnetic compass ;)

 

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pathfinder505

The Swanson was in the the North Atlantic and then Operation Torch before being sent to the Pacific. Maybe a canteen fell overboard and did make it to China. Wonder if there was a genie in it?

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Now what I heard happened is that Uvaldo Sylvester Swanson was issued a canteen made by Swanson when he was stationed aboard the USS Swanson, and one day while Mrs. Swanson was tossing out the trash including some of those old shiny aluminum Swanson's TV dinner trays, she accidentally tossed out Swanson's shiny Swanson from the Swanson along with the Swansons.

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I think I've opened a can of spam here. I've got no time to get hot on this Swanson trail, I'm still looking for this Vollrath character. I've traced him to every battlefront of WWII & Korea. He has to have been the largest canteen hoarder of the century.

 

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WHERE IS VOLLRATH??!?

 

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I'm still looking for this Vollrath character.

 

I'd thought he was bad guy in Harry Potter?

 

I do have to say though, that nothing we make up can be as funny as those real posts: even Ursel is real:

 

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Perhaps Ron Swanson can provide a lead,

 

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“Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into Swansons.”

 

But then again, perhaps not

 

“When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don’t really care about them.”

 

 

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Here's one he lost earlier........ in the Belgian Ardennes.......in the  village of Wardin.....

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