Original U.S. WWII “Trench Art” American Prisoner of War Etched Aluminum Cigarette Case With Sherman Tank and Eagle/Bomber Artwork Manufacture Type_Original Items or economic work

or economic work

By the time the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7

Initially trained as a counter-insurgency light infantry force by removing the fourth company each of the existing infantry battalions

The Navy declared the SNV obsolete in May 1945 and replaced it in the basic training role with the SNJ (T-6)

Original U.S. WWII “Trench Art” American Prisoner of War Etched Aluminum Cigarette Case With Sherman Tank and Eagle/Bomber Artwork Manufacture Type_Original Items or economic workOriginal Item: Only One Available. While interned in the various types of camps during WWII, prisoners often found themselves needing something to pass the time. Many POWs would turn to artwork and other related activities such as producing items that would have been useful, like a cigarette case for example. Prisoners would often make items such as this to use as barter items or even sold them to Prison Guards. The cigarette case does appear to be a