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Absolutely fantastic piece of History yokota! Just love the inscription information, one of a kind!

… and thanks for your Dad’s service, too!

I wanted to share what I recently uncovered, going through some of my old files. I came across a couple original and photocopies of letters that went with an M1903 Springfield rifle that had owned quite a while ago and as long been sold. The pre-WW1 rifle (1913 dated I believe) was in quite nice shape. It was taken home after service by the owner and in mid1941 donated to the American Committee for Defense of British Homes. This was an American organization in which US citizens donated gifts of arms, ammunition, binoculars, steel helmets, and stopwatches to be sent to British civilians for the defense of their homes. Obviously this is all done when the United Kingdom was under threat of invasion before December 7th, in this case literally just weeks before Pearl Harbor. Interestingly enough, there was correspondence confirming arrival of the donated '03 rifle (and Biltmore DB shotgun), what they were to be used for and eventually a thank you letter which accompanied the return of the arms to its owner.  Anyway, I thought this may be of interest to some on this Forum.   Cheers

Reminds me of the surplus packs  me an my brothers used for school back in the 1960’s. 

Hi all,   I picked up one of the above, named to "Adrian Vaaler". The medal came in a 1984 dated box, the name seems fairly unique, and I suspect this might be the guy: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/registerguard/name/adrian-vaaler-obituary?id=17904769   Can anymore confirm this?   Thanks,   Stephen  

I had one of those "Dude, where's my jeep?!" moments when someone had driven off in my M201 Hotchkiss by mistake, at an event back in 2007. He had gotten permission to borrow someone else's M201.... And they happened to have matching ignition keys. 

That just makes my back hurt looking at it….  Those straps were made for a 5’8” Soldier with a 40” chest.

My condolences 

Reminds me of when I used to work in Birmingham we had a rep that used to visit once every 3 months or so, he had been given a brand new company car a Ford Escort and he used to park it in the multi storey car park near ice rink. One of our engineers had a brother who worked at a Ford garage and he got hold of a spare key for the vehicle.  Think back then there were only about 8 different keys. He always parked as near to the same spot and the same level as he could to help him remember where he had left it. The engineers used to wait until he was in a meeting at our place then go and move his car up or down one level. This happened a couple of times and he never said anything about it. Then next trip he announced he had insisted his company replaced his car as he was convinced it was possessed and he point blank refused to have it any longer. Escorts were famous for ease of key entry, my wife had one and after college one dark November evening jumped into her car and drove off the car park before she noticed the toy monkey on the rear view mirror, her first thought was what's that doing there, someones been in my car very quickly followed by the realisation that her keys had unlocked a similar colour Escort and now she was driving off in it. She got it back and into her own car without the other owner realising,  although it might not have been parked where they had left it.