AE tattered signal flag from a U. S. destroyer on the Murmansk run ...
A helmet left behind when the Japanese stole quietly away from jog-bound Kiska . . . k.
A burned-out Luger taken at El Guettar when the Americans stopped Germany's famed Tenth Panzer Division . ..
I guess there's a little bit of the souvenir collector in even the most professional newsman.
For ever since the war began TIME correspondents and LIFE photographers and TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men in uniform have been sending our home office all kinds of trophies of warranging all the way from the smallest ball-bearing turned out...