Do you have a WWII Relic?

[plantmotoman41 0]

Pretty simple question, do you own a relic of WWII, be it a gun, item,or uniform used in the second World war? if yes tell us the story, and how you came 'round to it.

my story:

My parents bought a house in the ardennes, (an old house) We found an old little mirror clearly it was one of those army ones that was used during the war. It had U.S.A pressed on/in (dunno in english ) it. Seems we found property of Uncle sam!

[Veluxiotis 1]

Only my grandfather's diary during the war. But it's not complete :cry:

[mcshale 0]

I have a huge collection of postal stamps from the III reich with tanks, soldiers, planes and even hitler on them :lol:

I have found them in an old chest in my grandmas house attic.

I bet they are pretty valuable now.

[emanuelmaruio 1]

My Granpap gave me some things he aquired while serving with the 3rd Marines during WWII. He was a machine gunner and saw action on Guam and Bouganville. There's a few "odds and ends" that he "liberated" from corpses. The collection includes...

-Japanes Flag---It's got bloodstains and is signed by a few of his squad mates. He told me it was tied around a soldier's waste.

-5 or 6 Teeth on a dog tag chain

-Wallet with some "script"

-Many small photos of Japanese men, girls, and a squad of Japanese Marines. Some have writing on the back, but I can't read Japanese.

-Map case

-I guess those are the "highlights".

[Termon_25 0]

oh i got some things here and there.. we got an mauser 98k and a walther p38.. both wich still works perfectly fine!

luger holster, some metal containers and ammo boxes, i Had an original Pre-war pair of Ultrasin dust goggles untill some barista managed to step on them.

zeltbahn and other random equpiment and stuff

[ralpgalland 0]

I have a few things:

French Gasmask, in very bad condition, made in the 30's for the army.

German Wound Badge, black.

NS (Norwegian nazi "collaborator" government) collar pin

A 1945 Finnmark burning memory pin.

A pair of Lieutenant shoulderboards, possibly artillery.

A unopened austrian bandage pack, one of many types issued to the wehrmacht..

Some odds and ends..

and a German officer cap, medical/vetrenarien branch.. Tho, it could be a well made fake.

[libre1125 0]

A Mosin M91/30 made made in '40 and a Mosin M44 made in '44. Both bought at a gun show and a store. Both are tack drivers with surplus ammo made in Bulgaria, or Hungary, or Yugoslavia 40 years ago. (and will crack 4in of reinforced concrete in half at 150m in 5 shots) Maybe you update the game to include this fact?

I also have a US Army Chaplain's hymnal from the European campaign. Antique shop I think.

[Machete131 0]

I got a hitlerjugend m36 black helmet issued to 88 Flak battery operators

Soviet WW2 helmet green

[Matt6767 259]

I have an original M1 fixed bale helmet that was last issued to a soldier in the 69th air defense artillery brigade and a "restored" M42 german stahlhelm.

[sfunny 0]

I've got an original .30 M1 Carbine, 1943, Saginaw with an Inland barrel.

My granddad stole a Kar98K of a dead German, it got transferred to someone after he died but trying to get it back at the moment.

Cobra 6

[feendog 0]

I ve found an old Knife called "Grabenmesser "in my cellar .(very rusty)

[Spangling 0]

I have two U.S. Army helmets, one a little banged up and the other was probably unused.

I also have an Officer's Hat.

Edit: I also have a standard issue knife belt.

[Clocks_dk 0]

I have a jar of sand from Omaha Beach and some ww2 coins.

I had a few working rifles but sold them all a few months ago.

[tobikun2510 0]

My parents where digging in the garden for wiring when they found and .50 cal bullet from an Browing B2

[cinko 78]

I've got a number of others as well as my Grandfathers 2nd armored commemorative book. How the heck he became an American tank commander with the name Kaiser I'll never know.

[May9 0]

I heard that my family from the countryside had one of those panzerfaust pipes that remain after shooting the charge :lol:

[Spiritflask 1]

I remember my old English Teacher had an american infantry uniform from her father. With Bazooka medal, and some ribbons! European field one.

They sold a german officer uniform along with 2 german knife that had wrote "Deutschland über alles".

[tomch1k 0]

At some point, i did some local computer repairs and one day i was invited to fix a very old gentlemans computer.

He was a musician and used his old pc for recording things and listening to orchestras online.

This gentleman was surely pro-german during the invasion of Denmark (where i live) and he had many amusing stories of the period, especially how he and his friend, both young boys at the time had been shot after, while searching the prohibited beach for washed up ammunition.

One of the german guardsman achually hit him in the head with a bullet, but it was from such a distance that he dident get severly injured. He told me that the guardman after the incident was very harsly diciplined by his superior because he shot at the boys.

This old gentleman had during the occupation collected many small strange things from the wehrmacht as he had become friends with some of the soldiers stationed in this area after the shooting. He loved to tell these stories and i would happily listen, and as a tolken of my appriciation of the war history he gave me 3 flyers from the war time. And promised me a mortar shell he had picked up, on my next visit. Unfortunatly i never came back and i do not think he is a live anymore.

The first flyer he gave me was one thrown down from german bombers during the invasion of Denmark, stating in very horribly bad danish grammar that we should give up without a fight as the Germans were our friends defending us from the bolchevics, we were part of the nordic brotherhood and had nothing to fear from them.

The second flyer was dropped from an english bombers, with a large drawing of an empty chair on it, urging us to fill that empty chair in London, besides our allies.

The third flyer was a rare one, a small blueish paper, it was from the local ressistance movement. This one was printed in cellars and giving by hand to the danish public, this was very illegal in war time and carried a harsh penalty for anyone caught with it in their possesion.

A couple of weeks later, i was helping another elderly gentleman with his computer in the other end of the same city.

He had medals hanging all around his small addict office. It turned out, he was part of the ressistance movement during the occupation and he told me some brilliant stories, one about how they helped some captured resistance men escape from the grasp of the gestapo.

Back then he worked for a local boiler company, and the gestapo HQ down town (wich was located next to the Gestapo prison) needed to get a boiler changed. In cooperation with the resistance, some dynamite with a timer had been placed inside this new boiler. The timer was set they drove off with the boiler and he told me that to their big suprise they dident have any trouble getting in or installing it and were out of there faster then they anticipated. But as everything seemed to go according to plan, once the dynamite went off they realised somebody had gotten the amount of explosives wrong the boiler blew sky high almost taking the entire building block, prison and all with it.

In the end he told me, it had caused a massive explosion but luckily had not harmed any prisoners. They managed to help the resistance fighters escape and they were later shipped off to england.

These stories and the flyers are what i have from WW2, they have a great value to me.

Brilliant thread btw!

[Venenum 0]

I had a Hitler Jugend Dagger, but due to my lack of getting a blade licence, it got confiscated ...

[PonyTheSlayer 0]

Well let's make a list:

-A Kar98 found in the forest nearby.

-Old Knife, Grandfather used it, he was in the dutch resistance.

-Some old bullets.

-That's it.