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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 1113650, member: 29458&quot;]Looks to be very well made, treasure it.</p><p>I collect WWII and WWI medals, ephemera and related stuff.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My Dad who is 89 and still very much alive served in the Royal Navy during WWII, every Sunday (Today) I always hear a new story of what happened during the war.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My father was nearby Slapton Sands (Google it) when hundreds of US service men were slaughtered when training for the landings.</p><p>US were on a different radio frequency to the nearby British and nobody knew what was going on, it haunts him to this very day.</p><p>The US covered it up for decades (Slapton Sands Operation Tiger)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My Dads last days of combat were off the coast of Canada, he was with a skeleton crew on a new destroyer putting it through its trials before signing for it, it was built for us by the Canadians.</p><p>A German U-Boat surfaced nearly alongside them, thankfully it was the last day of the war and the Kapitan surrendered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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