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A Photo History

In 2019, my dad and I donated a rusty Nambu Type 14 to the museum.  HOWEVER……without the benefit of Jed Oxborrow’s field notes, the details of the pistol’s discovery weren’t available. Then, last year, from a crushed cardboard box in an over-stuffed self-storage unit in Carson City, I retrieved bundles of tattered, half-forgotten composition books and tape-bound field notes going back to 1960.

The following is a memo of provenance of donated WW2 artifacts to the Historic Wendover Airfield Museum . The purpose of this memo is to...