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Hold on to your butts, friends, because do I have a story for you! Many of you know that we recently bought an old stone farmhouse in PA from the 1850s or so. It’s been full of historical surprises, but today...oh boy...a thread.
I was dusting the mantle of the stone fireplace in the kitchen when I noticed a box in the very back. It was dark back there and the box was covered with a thick layer of dust. I never noticed it before! I grabbed it and cleaned it up...
Oh joy! Just what this historian of medicine would want, a gas casualty first aid kit from WWII! My dudes, I was pumped! Especially because I could tell there was stuff inside. Really excited to see old medical equipment! After a bit of a struggle w/the latches, I opened it up...
Uh oh! Shit. This is not looking good. Is that what I think it is? Please don’t be some old dude’s racist collection....please!
So, it is what I thought it was, but look! It’s a captured nazi flag.
And it was signed by the men who took it.
Underneath the flag was a little treasure of odds and ends.
All of this seems to belong to a Sergeant Dean McKittrick of Catasauqua, PA. Did he live in this house? Or did the previous owners know this person? It’s a very cool mystery!
