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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 121403, member: 136&quot;]I&#039;ve been posting lately in other parts of <i>Antiquers</i> about a stack of forgotten boxes I recently discovered in my garage. These boxes have been moved from one garage to another (and from state to state) since 1996. Tonight, I found out that some of the boxes actually came from my DH&#039;s late father, who died in 1993.</p><p><br /></p><p>My late FIL, Jim, was in the US Army in India and Burma during WWII. He worked on the railroads there from 1943-1945.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have unearthed <b>tons</b> of paper, a zillion photos, and lots of misc memorabilia from his time there.</p><p><br /></p><p>My husband has no interest in <i>any</i> of it (that&#039;s a long story...) and says, &quot;Just get rid of it,&quot; but I honestly don&#039;t feel I can simply put it all in the trash.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are military newspapers, civilian newspapers from Calcutta (in English) and a number of locomotive manuals &amp; the like. There&#039;s even a &quot;Japanese Engineer&#039;s armband&quot; that (according to an attached note) was taken from a dead Japanese soldier&#039;s arm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are just a few photos of stuff from the horde:</p><p><br /></p><p>This is Jim, in India, in 1943:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30819[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s that Japanese armband (some info redacted):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30820[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A cool photo of a Mobil Gas delivery in India:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30821[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the several railroad manuals:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30822[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>an envelope of military dispensed meds (no idea what) - pills now discarded:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30823[/ATTACH]</p><p>Souvenir of return home NOV 1945:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30824[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The route home, via Calcutta to NYC:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30825[/ATTACH]</p><p>and last, but not least, <i><u>Louise</u></i> - no idea who she was (certainly NOT my MIL!) but she sent him a lot of photos &amp; suggestive letters...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30826[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Do museums of any sort <i>want</i> this kind of stuff - or are there individuals who are interested in buying it? I really can&#039;t bring myself to just throw it away, but I&#039;m not sure how much of it I can or should keep, either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would love some input!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>-C-[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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