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    Inside a real WWII U-Boat!

    Das Boot was a great movie. It is the only submarine movie that I have ever seen that the actors act like a submarine crew.
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    Lets see your Rolex watches

    The rsdwatches post for the website that I assume is his own shows a nice non-Rolex bezel and face without a Rolex band.
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    Typewriters

    When you have a love for a certain type of item it is best to vow that you will give one to someone else who will love it (or sell at a reasonable price) if you get another rather than say you will not get another. That way you can move up without losing more storage space.
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    Typewriters

    It is a black Model 1. Several young kids had no idea what it was and it was guys in their late 20s who thought it was for crypto work.
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    Typewriters

    https://flic.kr/p/nn7Zc7 This weekend I was at a WWII event and several visitors thought my Underwood was an enigma machine.
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    Abbott and Costello would be proud

    what position did Nguyen play? (please read that with Vietnamese pronunciation.)
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    The Ration Book Diet

    A garden is, and was the best way to have fresh vegetables. The metal for tins (cans) being the critical material is illustrated very well by a small tag/pamplet that I picked up at an antique store explaining how to replace canned coconut with boxed dried coconut with a promise that canned...
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    The Ration Book Diet

    Much of the wartime rationing was really done to reduce tire wear on trucks. Interesting how the appearant goal is not always the true purpose.
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    The Wooden Wonder - the de Havilland Mosquito

    I just realized that KA114 is the plane that was discussed at the start of this thread. May 17 and 18 are the days of the airshow this year. If any FL members go, drop by the LRDG camp and say hi.
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    The Wooden Wonder - the de Havilland Mosquito

    I am not usually into aircraft but I love it when I see Mosquito KA114 in the air at Warbirds Over The Beach in Virginia Beach
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    New Pocket Watch

    Timesavers.com is where I usually get my watch display items.
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    New Pocket Watch

    I have been getting all my watches fixed and serviced as it is so hard to find a real watchmaker. The fellow who does my work is well into his 80s and I doubt I will ever meet a better watchmaker.
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    The Ration Book Diet

    I am sure General MacArthur would have no trouble with people eating Japanese rice since he was the governor who rebuilt the country and enacted so many reforms in Japan. He stayed in Japan two years after he turned over control of the country.
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    Iron Sky and the real question about Nazi experimentation with flying discs...

    As for quality of equipment I heard a vet say something like Germany had the finest target rifle US had the finest hunting rifle England had the finest military rifle Russia had the finest club.
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    WWII Navy Pilot Reenactor

    There is a unit that I have seen at couple of events that alternates between Japanese and Phillippine armys. Reenacting should be about education, not making a political statement.
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    What are the Oldest Objects you Own?

    I have some spindle whorls that are about 100 BC, roman coins, etc. but the oldest dated item is a book "Brown's Vulger Errors" dated 1658.
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    Rocky Boots... or the Amazing Case of the Disintegrating Soles..

    Sounds kind of like the way Bates soles break down in a few years.
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    Help identify Bomber mission clocks...????

    The idea of usig a knife to remove the locking ring does not sound quite milspec. The mount does not have the quality that is seen in navigation watc cases
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    "Too good to use..."

    Rather than being "too good to use" fine items are good enough to use. It is like a knife that is dull will cut your fingers more because it slips off what it should be cutting. I can not afford to buy cheap stuff because it will not last like the good stuff.
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    Help identify Bomber mission clocks...????

    I am sure that the wathes are not original to the holder. St Regis were low-end "dollar watches". I would imagine that since the portion of the instructions that are showing says "watches on stop when not in use" it held stopwatches or chronographs since they would have a stop feature.

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