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DrNickRiviera
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:06 am    Post subject: Since there are so many WWII buffs here.... Reply with quote

I thought you would appreciate this. I graduated last week, and everytime someone in my family graduates, my grandmother gives each of us one of my grandfathers WWII artifacts. My dad got his dogtags and coat. My brother got his GI kit (all of the shaving stuff and etc). She gave me his binoculars, or I should say what she thought were his. So We were looking at them, and all I could think was that the case they came in did not look like allied colors. So I looked more into the binocs, and they are painted a color that looks like the panzers. I found out they were made by Dienstglas, and were given to German field officers. I just thought this was kinda cool, and here is a picture.
http://www.nerdtreehouse.com/php/html/upload_images/DrNickRiviera.jpg
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice.

Thanks for sharing your story.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool. I wonder where they came from.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is pretty cool. My dad has a French Bayonet that his grandfather picked up off the battle grounds during WWI.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cool must have picked up a little momento from the field when he was over there.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SilverOne wrote:
Nice.

Thanks for sharing your story.


yeah what he said
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