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Post by sue75 on Dec 2, 2006 18:22:33 GMT -5
Hi Michael, How full of it are some people? This interview with Reece Haines from the WWII oral history archive program out of Rutgers University says that Lindbergh's pickup? was used to deliver the ransom? Have you ever heard of a "war material museum" in Tabernacle, New Jersey that houses Lindbergh's pickup? A pickup?! oralhistory.rutgers.edu/Interviews/haines_reece.html Sue
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Post by Michael on Dec 2, 2006 21:26:54 GMT -5
Hi Sue.
I can't find the reference in this link... I must be dyslexic tonight!
I have heard of this claim before. A Co-Worker shared seeing this truck and the purorted use made of it. In short - I simply don't know... It was presented to me that it transported Lindbergh Ransom - that's a very general claim.
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Post by sue75 on Dec 2, 2006 21:40:21 GMT -5
About 2/3 the way down on the page:
SI: Was there a lot of souvenir taking and that sort of thing?
RH: Yes, our company occupied an Air Force, a Japanese Air Force … port, really, and we searched all the buildings. … There we found … Japanese swords, brand new rifles. So the captain had his orders that we could send things home, and everybody was given a little ticket, you know, and I could go pick out a rifle, sword and so I did. But then you had to pull the firing pin out of the rifle and destroy it. You could easily bend it up and throw it away. It was a .29 caliber, so GI ammunition didn't fit it, and I sent that home. I guess, I sent three of them home, actually. … I had a Japanese sword, and I had this one rifle until about four years ago, when a man by the name of Brown has a war materiel museum in Tabernacle, New Jersey, which is outside of Vincentown and also close to Medford, and he has all kinds of German stuff and a lot of Japanese stuff. He has the pickup truck that was used to deliver the ransom money in the Hauptmann-Lindbergh case, where Hauptmann kidnapped the Lindbergh baby and so on. That was Lindbergh's pickup. … He has all the newspaper articles around that pickup that you can read, and it's a tremendous thing for just one man to do. … He has British uniforms all the way from the lowest rank, I guess, clear up to admirals, and he had British bobbies' uniforms. One thing that interested me, that was a three-wheel motorcycle that could lay barbwire. It had like a great big barrel behind it that would be a drum of barbwire, and you could set that thing and ride it across a field, and you'd have barbwire, so high, up all the way across the field. The Germans had that. I never heard about it until I saw it in his museum.
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Post by kevkon on Dec 3, 2006 8:03:28 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Dec 3, 2006 9:52:10 GMT -5
Hi Kevkon,
I can't find the index or any mention of the truck at the Air Victory Museum. Do you have any other information?
Thanks, Sue
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Post by kevkon on Dec 3, 2006 13:11:31 GMT -5
Not really, you might want to call down there if you are really interested in finding out about the truck.
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