[Milsurplus] What is it? Clandestine?

[Richard Solomon]

At the end of WW II when the troops
were coming home in droves, things
were a tad lax.
One of the favorite souvenirs of the
Tin Can Sailors was a 3" shell, less
the powder, thankfully.
But, the primer was still live and that
needed to be disposed of.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> >Could the radio be a war trophy, brought home by someone, then offered
> for sale after the person died or lost interest in it? What were the
> regulations after WW2 regarding bringing German and Japanese radio gear
> home?
>
> I think that's undoubtedly it. As I understand it, by reading some rules
> documents, during the war, you were quite limited as to souvenirs -
> generally it was uniform items.
> Not any kind of "scientific item". Rules got bent. I don't know if you
> could mail back packages during the war - letters were reduced to microfilm
> for transmission.
> When at end of war, you could send packages back, you had to - as I
> understand it - get a release form, that the items were permitted
> souvenirs. I'd say within a year that
> was history and whatever could legally go thru mail, could be sent. Some
> vet could have picked up the item, either during the war or picked it up
> afterward, when dollars
> were king, then sent or carried it back.
> -H
>
>
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