I bought a nasty old WWII US canteen at auction today for 2 bucks. I removed it from the canvas carrier and I removed the cup from the bottom.
The cup was hand engraved with each of the campaigns that it's original owner had fought in.
One engraving says "..20th INF." which would make it part of the 6th Division. I guess these poor bastards held the record for continuous days in combat - 219 days straight. They killed the Japanese 12:1.
It gives me pause to think about all of those poor bastards, particularly "BJD" who fought and survived his own corner of hell. We are mere shadows of his generation.
The campaigns listed are: New Guinea Hollandia Maffin Bay Luzon Leyte Panay Negroes Mindanao Mindoro
Lincoln Baker
Here's the bit that drives it home for me: The largest engraving on the cup says "Janet", and he underlined it 3 times.
Lucas Torres
holy fuck thats sad
Thanks for showing us this OP
Luis Smith
Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
Cooper Allen
I would have paid at least three dollars and I've been known to chase pennies down hills while eating bagels.
Alexander Brown
DO IT FOR HER O
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Hunter Moore
Really makes you think
Isaiah Rodriguez
Here's to that guy, whoever he was.
Saving the pics, going to pass them to a friend in the Army's historical department.
Tyler Butler
Didn't know you fought a campaign against negroes too, good job burgers
Austin Phillips
>everyone who held that before you is now dead
Evan Kelly
Wtf I like Americans now. Jk it's pretty cool.
Brandon Powell
except the auctioneer hopefully
Juan Bailey
>he killed the shopkeeper
Isaiah Fisher
It seems cool, but how did they engrave that? It kind of looks like a machine did it. Not professionally obviously, but it's very uniform in the markings.
Dominic Adams
I think I got my money's worth today, lots of good/bad feels - better and cheaper than a movie.
Joshua Taylor
Nifty, but don't go insulting my generation just because this faggot got tricked into fighting a bankers war.
Sebastian Lewis
I wonder if he outlived her.
Eli Sullivan
Hammer and chisel, or even a sharp screwdriver will do it. The metal those are made of isn't particularly hard and the guy obviously has a bit of skill. Possibly a part of his job before the war.
Ryder Brooks
Yeah, I wonder if him and Janet settled down and had a big litter of kids. I'm an old fucker, and they were my grandparents generation.
Dylan Williams
They didn't know that, don't cheapen their sacrifice. The only way to get information was from newspapers and radios, how the fuck would they know what they were getting into? Their hearts were pure, they fought for what they thought was right, on all sides. Don't be a cunt.
Eli Roberts
They probably had rotary tools for machine work and marking metal parts, etc. Wouldn't have had them in the field of course but ships and installations would have had machine shops for repairing equipment
looking at it again you are probably right because those rough edges are probably done with a non-power tool
Blake Anderson
Yeah I started thinking about it they probably had access to all kinds of shit, especially naval units as you said.
Colton Price
I didn't ask for these feels, OP.
Gabriel Edwards
The edges are gouged out in a uniform way that probably wouldn't happen with a power tool, like the other user said it's probably a guy holding a hard chisel or screwdriver against it and hitting it with a hammer
Kevin Richardson
Anyone interested in images of a probable German WWII Mess tin with a name scratched the paint?
Josiah Bell
It could be a pneumatic peen marker. Which is pretty much a little chisel that moves in and out.
Carson Butler
Of course.
Mason Young
The guy who it belonged to probably used it as a year book of sorts, and the guys signing is never thought much about it. It would be interesting to know which ones died in combat and those who lived.
Adam Ross
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Owen Collins
I wasn't aware such a tool existed, it could be what was used. It doesn't look like anything rotary and then of course on further consideration since it's a thin metal cup any cutting type tool would just make a hole and render it useless
Asher Smith
Here's his sig "BJD"
Sebastian Bennett
I picked this up at an army surplus store for like $10 This is the top of the lid
I couldn't read this clearly until I took the photo, I think it says "CO FOR 20th INF". If so, it could be possible to name him.
Nathan Clark
thanks for sharing and for feels nice 7's
Cooper Anderson
With as much cursive on there, it was probably kind of like a tattoo gun.
Jacob Jones
forgot to add photo...
Joseph Morgan
2 bucks for this? Were they retarded?
Joshua Thomas
Roger that
Thomas Bennett
>the former owner probably killed Mudshits from Mindanao F
Tyler Jenkins
The inside is pristine
Tyler Lewis
Tattoo gun wouldn't do it, they use needles. I'm thinking engraving tool like the other user said. They use them to engrave rings, lockets, knives, guns, whatever. I'm not saying this is a fake, but I'm curious/autistic. Soldiers might have had access to engraving tools for any number of reasons.
Daniel Brooks
I'm searching, these are very specific details Hopefully we can identify the soldier this belonged to
Chase Wilson
Damn OP that's cool as fuck. I love threads like these.
Matthew Wood
Can you get a better shot of the unit marking? Knowing the company of the regiment will help.
Dylan Martinez
Yeah, I am thinking something like this, just a little more crude.
Outside shows wear and personality. Inside shows dedication to keeping his tool in good working order.
Collectors normally go nuts over this, save it for future generations. At the very least you've kept a taciticool faggot from losing it in the woods.
Nathan Parker
It was an auction and was thrown on a big table with a ton of other crap. I saw other people looking at the canteen itself, but the cup sits in the very bottom, and was hard to get out. The canteen itself was in below average condition, so nobody was fighting for it.
I have a hard time believing that his family lost track of something like this. If he was my grand-dad, I'd never let go of it.
Juan Jones
Okay, so BJD from F Company, 20th Infantry, 6th Division.
I don't mean to be, but shit, when are people going to learn?
Hudson Powell
These old mess kits are great for when your'e in the woods, I've even made popcorn in them.
Ryan Reyes
This is the only marking on this mess kit,
Ethan Edwards
>tfw I collect Coins >my favorite is German Coins from The reich More pics?
Anthony Collins
We have no excuse. We have constant information. It wasn't the same back then. You have to look at motivation. They were fighting for their people, mom, dad, sister, girlfriend, etc. They get a pass in my book.
If hillary wins, remember who to fight when WW3 breaks out.
Levi Johnson
I also have this from 1863
Jeremiah Roberts
I think I misread it, it;s god-awful dirty! It's 'CO "F" 20th INF.' I even see quotes around "F"
We'd probably have to get into the National Archives Modern Military branch out at Suitland, Maryland to pull the company rosters.
Liam Hall
20th infantry didn't exist during ww2
Jacob Scott
Ooooh, good find. Downloaded.
Matthew Thompson
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Nolan Stewart
BJD he might actually be in this picture
Brandon Clark
>The only way to get information was from newspapers and radios, how the fuck would they know what they were getting into? Their hearts were pure, they fought for what they thought was right, on all sides. And they were betrayed in the end, stabbed in the back. Shit makes me mad.
Blake Martinez
You are confusing division and regiment, and yes it did. Wikipedia that shit.
Julian Cruz
Roger that. Here's one more shot that completes the set Mindinau Mindoro
Angel Wilson
The fog of war gets us every time Sup Forums
Liam Wood
>holy fuck thats sad
you reddit faggot germans were germans most of the white people from usa were germans
dumb goy
Lucas Rogers
bump
Ryder Turner
Coins are dope
Elijah Sanders
Awesome find Sup Forums. The title alone makes we want to read it through.
Nathan Young
That's pretty cool, OP! The most personalized bit from WWII I own is this Japanese enlisted man's dogtag from Okinawa. I bought the dog tag, field glasses and Type 14 from the grandson of the vet that brought it back. I bought the original Type 38 bullet at a gun show.
The right column is 5629 which is the unit code for 36th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division and/or Daitojima Guard Unit within the 32nd Army. (The Daitojima Guard Unit may be a part of the 36th infantry regiment or may be another name for the regiment.) The middle column is 33 for the 33rd company of the regiment. The left column is 7. That means he was soldier number 7 of the company (or many regiment I don't remember how it's set up).
Zachary Ramirez
This was a pretty brutal episode. Thanks Sup Forums
Dylan Thomas
I would provide my left testicle for a Nambu T14... Serious Jelly
Charles Mitchell
Yep, thats what I was thinking of. My grandpa had one, couldn't remember what it was called.
Jack Ortiz
All those namedrops on Philippine locations and only one flip post? Fo'shame. Luzon, Leyte, Panay, Negros, Mindanao, Mindoro. Pretty cool. My grandfather was in the vietnam and korean wars. I'm timid around asking him for war stories, I'm not sure if it would garner positive or negative feedback.
Robert Sanders
They aren't exactly uncommon.
Here is a "China Incident" medal which is what the Japanese called WWII. Every soldier got one of these. They're like $15 medals (more with the box and paperwork which I do not own), but cool nonetheless.
Joshua Parker
OP, I think you should take some good pictures, but I think you should use it as well. Not all the time, but just every once in awhile, heat up some soup in there or take it on a hike and drink from it. I think that guy would like to know that his stuff is still useful after all this time. You don't have to be rough with it, but keeping old stuff like that and using it is a lot more meaningful in my opinion. Kinda keeps the tradition and ritual alive through the item, you know?
Alexander Reyes
They did. By a wheelchair bound commie. Next comes a wheelchair bound 1st woman president globalist, if we don't vote, and convince others to vote.
Joshua Cox
>My grandfather was in the vietnam and korean wars. >I'm timid around asking him for war stories, I'm not sure if it would garner positive or negative feedback
ASK HIM NOW ask him
Really
>t. too late to ask now
Matthew Howard
Ask him, and record it for posterity. He will be gone soon, these stories only live as long as he does. Do it user
Cameron Edwards
Quite a collection, spent some time in Oki, it was a bad business for everyone involved. My father has a Japanese Arisaka 38 brought back from Oki as a war prize by my great Uncle. I shot it a few months ago -good gun.
Levi Ortiz
I agree with this, use it but remember to treat it like something you borrowed from the man and will eventually be giving back to him.
Alexander Walker
Anyone interested in seeing a Japanese flag from Osaka? Occupation not a battle flag.
Jason Hernandez
Someone left behind their vietnam vet hat with a purple heart ribbon in it at my job.
Xavier Morris
meanwhile Janet fucked other guys who had a "medical" excuse to not be enlisted while he was at war
>inb4 b...but women were different back then
NO THEY FUCKING WEREN'T they just hid their degeneracy better.
Ayden Sanders
>liberals today seriously consider him the best president of the united states this makes me SO UNBELIEVABLY FURIOUS
Grayson Martin
Most WWII vets I knew didn't talk in great detail. I did get my father in law drunk one night before he passed away, he Got in on the tail of of the European theater. When I got him to open up, he told me a couple of cringeworthy stories. It was probably for the best that most of these guys were tight-lipped.
Eli Gray
Contributing anyways
Cameron Ramirez
I'd like to toast this man with some Bourbon in it, but it's freaking NASTY at the moment, and I'm not sure I should clean it.
Jace Gray
Nice I like Arisakas! I own a few myself. Here is a couple Type 99 long rifles. A sort of pre-production Type 99. Got pics of your 38? I can probably tell you the manufacturer and series of it.
Easton Gonzalez
Do what says, but also record it if you can.
Liam Collins
>Most WWII vets I knew didn't talk in great detail. Sadly, that is probably true. I've always wanted to talk to my great uncle. He was on the USS California when it was bombed in Pearl Harbor.
I have the telegram that the Navy sent to his family saying he was dead, a shame I don't have the postcard he sent saying he was alive!
