Just show something cool: Part 416283
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
| So..some guy on a facebook group posted a few photos - the championship crest and my grandfathers (Dido's) player certificate from 1942/43!!! why the heck does he have my Dido's player cert!!!   |
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a few other of my grand dads patches as well as my dad and uncles from the 40's through the 60's!!    |
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 The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| Did you ask him? | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Brontejust asked permission to join the group - will share these other badges and ask if I can have the certificate!! somewhere in a box I have team photos too! for both my dad, uncle (often on same teams) and my grand dads teams |
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 Where's his Bat-package?
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The badges/patches are very cool! I could post photos of my dad's naughty underground comics but I'd get booted off! How about this instead: During WWII, civil defense was issued sets of silhouette cards to assist in identifying enemy aircraft. My family got one because we're on the west coast near Ellwood Beach, one of the only mainland locations to have been bombed during the war (True story: Ellwood Beach was shelled by a Japanese submarine in one of the least effective acts of war ever. Of course, Japanese newspapers reported it was a mighty victory that sent the Americans fleeing. Seriously... we barely noticed). |
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @Byrdibyrd my grandmothers brother had these and some other stuff - he was a navigator on a Lancaster Bomber in WWII Shot down twice behind enemy lines and escaped both times!!!  |
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| @KatKomics That is insanely cool!! The Lancaster Bomber is definitely one of the cards I have. Such a great plane. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Byrdibyrd only 17 left in the world and only 2 in flying condition - 1 of those 2 is 30 minutes from me and routinely flies over (along with other planes from the Canadian Warplane Museum) as they need to fly to stay in good condition - can't imagine hundreds of them over head - just one gives an awesome rumble!! Every once in a while one of their planes circles the Niagara Peninsula - apparently you can book a seat! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by KatKomicsMy jealousy has reached epic proportions. I could counter by saying (whiny voice) that I've been to a few airshows, but... No. That'd be too embarrassing. I'll just doff my cap, as one should under such circumstances.   |
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 I’m sure whatever it was you got me was perfect.
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Keeping with the WWII theme, going through my wife’s grandfather’s belongings and found this: |
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| @PhantomEwan that is awesome!! | ||
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@PhantomEwan WOW!!!  |
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I’m sure whatever it was you got me was perfect.
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This too:  |
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| @PhantomEwan these are incredible!! Shouldn't these be in some museum somewhere? Do you how your wife's grandfather came by them? | ||
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The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| Stupid question. If these are originals, Shouldn't this stuff be in a museum archive? | ||
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Byrdibyrd private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @PhantomEwan Double WOW!!! I'm with @Jesse_O & @Bronte. If those are original signatures, these documents should be archived. |
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I’m sure whatever it was you got me was perfect.
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| @PhantomEwan dude, you're killing me here!!! At the very least, tell me that they are stored properly and not sitting in some shoe box in a closet!! | ||
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| It looks like you have General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz and President Truman's signatures on those papers. The Truman signature might have been a secretary or autopen, but still ... these are incredible!!! | ||
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| They were in an old wooden “suitcase” for I don’t know how long. He was a career military man but he never talked about the war. We never knew about any of these until after he passed and we were going through his stuff. I don’t think the signatures are authentic but I may have to consult someone more knowledgeable than me make sure. |
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| Very cool documents! To my untrained eyes I am quite certain they are copies of handwriting on a more modern printing of the surrender instruments. So printed over (machine copy of the sigs over similarly spaced original text facsimile). |
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| Btw modern could be 1960s… who knows. It could also be a facsimile copy contemporary to the originals but I am more doubtful. The original surrender docs are indeed in museums. I am 99% sure (as Phantom also believes) that they are not real, original sigs. |
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 I AM... THE Bat-Manuel
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| From my office window in Halifax, NS No shipping problems here  |
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
 Taking “cool” literally here. More like ice cold. |
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 being an ass and being a clown are two very different things.
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| @WMorse Cool coins! | ||
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 It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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I've got some coins.              |
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| @GAC WOW!!! Those are excellent! Those last 3 in particular are really striking. |
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It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| @Byrdibyrd Thank you!! I appreciate that. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Byrdibyrd Hehe, “striking” when describing minted coins. Intentional? |
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