Capture paper value

GerColctor · 12-06-2008, 06:37 PM

taqcfoley

Interesting variation of an old Chinese saying.

George

I have seen quite a few capture papers and like you never saw one dated earlier then 1945. Not saying there aren't ones dated prior to 1945.

The 1944 date might be a "red" flag concerning this document, unless somebody knows of an earlier version.

Joe

Zamo · 12-09-2008, 02:03 PM

I don't know if it would be an indication of a forgery. Let's put this in perspective. How many troops rotated home from the ETO in 1944 versus 1945? The Allies landed in France halfway through 1944, so there's only six months left in '44 to go home, or to send a package home. There probably wasn't a lot of guys "going home" unless they were either a very senior officer doing some stuff back in the states, or were WIA. Compare the numbers of both of those groups with the great exodus of returning GI's of all flavours during 1945, and you can easily see how rare a 1944 marked set of papers would be, yet that doesn't mean they don't, or didn't exist.

12-06-2008, 06:37 PM	#1
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 315 Thanks: 2 Thanked 48 Times in 31 Posts	taqcfoley Interesting variation of an old Chinese saying. George I have seen quite a few capture papers and like you never saw one dated earlier then 1945. Not saying there aren't ones dated prior to 1945. The 1944 date might be a "red" flag concerning this document, unless somebody knows of an earlier version. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.

12-09-2008, 02:03 PM	#2
Zamo User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Washington State Posts: 142 Thanks: 4 Thanked 13 Times in 9 Posts	I don't know if it would be an indication of a forgery. Let's put this in perspective. How many troops rotated home from the ETO in 1944 versus 1945? The Allies landed in France halfway through 1944, so there's only six months left in '44 to go home, or to send a package home. There probably wasn't a lot of guys "going home" unless they were either a very senior officer doing some stuff back in the states, or were WIA. Compare the numbers of both of those groups with the great exodus of returning GI's of all flavours during 1945, and you can easily see how rare a 1944 marked set of papers would be, yet that doesn't mean they don't, or didn't exist. __________________ <INSERT WITTY SAYING HERE> My collection: http://home.comcast.net/~gunspotz/guns.htm