WWII personal soldier equpiment - WWII museum Gdansk, Poland

[Delicious]

Last weekend I was in the WW II museum in Gdańsk, Poland. This museum is quite new, but very popular.
You can see the war from a broad view, not only Poland, so it is interesting for foreigners as well. Most of the exhibition is multimedia information, but there are also real memorabilia - civil and military. It takes about 3 hours to see the exhibition. Everything is located underground.
I took some pictures of personal soldier equipment from different countries

Some US rations cans

German fish can. Schokakola and a coffee mill

mess kits, kitchenware (Poland, Germany etc

German portable stove - it is almost identical to the current Italian

Below - a reconstruction of UK air shelter, note the Mr Bean teddy bear on the floor

If you will be near - it's worth to visit

[Smitty]

Very cool!

[JediMindTricks]

woow, sweeeeet. I wonder if any of the example tins of food still had contents? They should be careful not to let Steve in

[steve1989]

woow, sweeeeet. I wonder if any of the example tins of food still had contents? They should be careful not to let Steve in

that was awesome




Thank you for sharing, Delicious. Those boiled sweets tins are almost always empty. I have a couple similar British rations from that era and do wonder if the boiled sweets were just Pascal Barley Sugar or perhaps twist-wrapped spherical shaped boiled sweets. May never know..

[Delicious]

woow, sweeeeet. I wonder if any of the example tins of food still had contents? They should be careful not to let Steve in

that was awesome




Thank you for sharing, Delicious. Those boiled sweets tins are almost always empty. I have a couple similar British rations from that era and do wonder if the boiled sweets were just Pascal Barley Sugar or perhaps twist-wrapped spherical shaped boiled sweets. May never know..

Well, your collection Steve is something like 100 times richer than this museum

[steve1989]

woow, sweeeeet. I wonder if any of the example tins of food still had contents? They should be careful not to let Steve in

that was awesome




Thank you for sharing, Delicious. Those boiled sweets tins are almost always empty. I have a couple similar British rations from that era and do wonder if the boiled sweets were just Pascal Barley Sugar or perhaps twist-wrapped spherical shaped boiled sweets. May never know..

Well, your collection Steve is something like 100 times richer than this museum

I dunno about that, if you were walking through there for 3 hours, they probably have me beat! I was mostly just laughing at what the cool Ukrainian giant dude said.

The museum itself seems like a really nice one. Will have to go down to a local one nearby that I gave a case of 74 MCIs to last year and see if they still have it. If they do, they will get a few new things and I'll report back with a picture or 2.

[cap174]

that was awesome




Thank you for sharing, Delicious. Those boiled sweets tins are almost always empty. I have a couple similar British rations from that era and do wonder if the boiled sweets were just Pascal Barley Sugar or perhaps twist-wrapped spherical shaped boiled sweets. May never know..

Well, your collection Steve is something like 100 times richer than this museum

I dunno about that, if you were walking through there for 3 hours, they probably have me beat! I was mostly just laughing at what the cool Ukrainian giant dude said.

The museum itself seems like a really nice one. Will have to go down to a local one nearby that I gave a case of 74 MCIs to last year and see if they still have it. If they do, they will get a few new things and I'll report back with a picture or 2.

Case of 74 MCIs? Was that one case, or more? Anyways, wish I worked for that museum!

[Delicious]

that was awesome




Thank you for sharing, Delicious. Those boiled sweets tins are almost always empty. I have a couple similar British rations from that era and do wonder if the boiled sweets were just Pascal Barley Sugar or perhaps twist-wrapped spherical shaped boiled sweets. May never know..

Steve, I wonder if our museum in Gdansk would be interested in getting a complete US ration set (I don't mean the whole case, just the 24h set). If you are able to sell this I will ask them

[JediMindTricks]

that was awesome




Thank you for sharing, Delicious. Those boiled sweets tins are almost always empty. I have a couple similar British rations from that era and do wonder if the boiled sweets were just Pascal Barley Sugar or perhaps twist-wrapped spherical shaped boiled sweets. May never know..

Well, your collection Steve is something like 100 times richer than this museum

I dunno about that, if you were walking through there for 3 hours, they probably have me beat! I was mostly just laughing at what the cool Ukrainian giant dude said.

The museum itself seems like a really nice one. Will have to go down to a local one nearby that I gave a case of 74 MCIs to last year and see if they still have it. If they do, they will get a few new things and I'll report back with a picture or 2.

Woohoo Steve knows who I am! Nice!