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Heathenhymnal said:
Yeah the photos were his own. He took TONS of photos while he was deployed. He was a pilot so all the photos in the post are either of him with his plane or photos he took from his plane.

The amazing thing is he wrote notes on the backs of most of them. Here are the notes from the photos in my post.

"Plane I flew in combat, Palawan P.I. Punta Princessa 1945"

"Between Asension Island & Africa on way over seas above Atlantic Ocean"

"Flying back from Roosevelts Funeral 1945"

"On way to Borneo to bomb oil refineries 1945"

"Me in A-26 in Osaka Japan"

Yeah I was very surprised too about the old American balisong/butterfly knife, I hadn't realized the design had really made it to the west that early on.
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That’s very cool. Talk about wings of history
 
pa knifeguy said:
Tom, I'd love to hear about your Case and Zippo. I'm sure others would too
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I’ll think about it. I promise it’s not as big a deal as I’m making it sound by my evasiveness. It was certainly a memorable 5-year period of my life, though.

In the meantime, here is the other side of the Zippo:
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Heathenhymnal Heathenhymnal , I hope you’ll archive your grandfather’s photos for future generations. I come from a country which has been blessed with peace for centuries, but my grandfather was doing his military service patrolling the northern border to Finland 🇫🇮 during the war. He took photos of burning finnish settlements across the border. I saw these photos as a child and have asked my father to find them. There is a sad parallel to today’s atrocities in Ukraine. History repeating itself.
 
baxtrom said:
Heathenhymnal Heathenhymnal , I hope you’ll archive your grandfather’s photos for future generations. I come from a country which has been blessed with peace for centuries, but my grandfather was doing his military service patrolling the northern border to Finland 🇫🇮 during the war. He took photos of burning finnish settlements across the border. I saw these photos as a child and have asked my father to find them. There is a sad parallel to today’s atrocities in Ukraine. History repeating itself.
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Yeah I've been trying to care for all his photos and lots of war documents and maps and bombing run plans etc. as best I can. I've also slowly been taking high-res scans of all of his photos so if they ever deteriorate I at least have digital backups of all of them. Lots and lots of history there I don't want to see just disappear or end up in one of those junk bins in an antique shop.
 
Heathenhymnal said:
Yeah the photos were his own. He took TONS of photos while he was deployed. He was a pilot so all the photos in the post are either of him with his plane or photos he took from his plane.

The amazing thing is he wrote notes on the backs of most of them. Here are the notes from the photos in my post.

"Plane I flew in combat, Palawan P.I. Punta Princessa 1945"

"Between Asension Island & Africa on way over seas above Atlantic Ocean"

"Flying back from Roosevelts Funeral 1945"

"On way to Borneo to bomb oil refineries 1945"

"Me in A-26 in Osaka Japan"

Yeah I was very surprised too about the old American balisong/butterfly knife, I hadn't realized the design had really made it to the west that early on.
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Wow! Those photos are absolute treasures!
 
Just Tom. said:
I’ll think about it. I promise it’s not as big a deal as I’m making it sound by my evasiveness. It was certainly a memorable 5-year period of my life, though.

In the meantime, here is the other side of the Zippo:
2QO5FDh.jpg
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Tom I'm impressed, must have been quite an interesting five years. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Eric
 
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