ONE MAN’S TRASH
Oct 01, 2019
2 minutes
—Tom Czekanski, senior curator and restoration manager
rescued this artifact from the garbage in Washington Heights in New York City shortly after returning from an extended combat tour in Vietnam in 1969. I’m a red leg—an artilleryman—and very familiar with 105mm ammunition. Decorated with a greenery pattern, it reads: “England, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Germany 1944-45.
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