Hey, for lack of a better place to put this, I've always been curious about a piece of WWII memorabilia I have. It's a landmine case (like a little wooden box with no explosives inside). It was my grandpa's and family lore has it that it lists some battles he was in. There is a list of places or something on the underside of the lid. Anybody heard of one of these landmine keepsakes? I can post a picture tonight.
He's been gone for 25 years so there's no checking this with him and he didn't talk about the war much like a lot of those guys. His kids never heard a single story to my knowledge about the war. I remember him telling me two stories:
1. He was out and about somewhere in Europe when an ally air attack was about to occur and all the planes were flying overhead. He said there were so many planes it blocked out the sun. Exaggeration for sure, but painted a neat picture.
2. Other one was some Germans waiving him and his crew (I don't know military terms, sorry) over pretending to need help. IDK, I guess they looked like harmless German soldiers? Anyway, as my Grandpa's team (wrong term, I know) got closer the Germans started shelling them. Don't know how that story ended - he kept both stories kind of vague and I was only like 12 or something so I don't think he wanted to get into details.
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