I have been going through a lot of my inherited stuff and have found a bunch of WW2 related memerobilia. If you would like I will post some of it.
Pep cereal was a popular breakfast food in the 40's, and Kellog's got with the war theme by putting aircraft recognition models into the box as prizes.
This is the package that one of the balsa wood models came in in the early war years.
[attachment 16704 airplanepackagepep.jpg]
This package contained a real balsa model of a Russian fighter that you could cut out and assemble.
[attachment 16702 airplanebalsapep.jpg]
Later in the war when materials were getting scarse, they switched over to hard cardboard for the models.
[attachment 16705 airplanepaperbomberpep.jpg]
I think it is neat that my Folks kept this kind of thing for me to find all these years later. If we would have had them as kids, they would have been long gone instead of pristine condition.
Hope you liked this time capsule. DC
Pep cereal was a popular breakfast food in the 40's, and Kellog's got with the war theme by putting aircraft recognition models into the box as prizes.
This is the package that one of the balsa wood models came in in the early war years.
[attachment 16704 airplanepackagepep.jpg]
This package contained a real balsa model of a Russian fighter that you could cut out and assemble.
[attachment 16702 airplanebalsapep.jpg]
Later in the war when materials were getting scarse, they switched over to hard cardboard for the models.
[attachment 16705 airplanepaperbomberpep.jpg]
I think it is neat that my Folks kept this kind of thing for me to find all these years later. If we would have had them as kids, they would have been long gone instead of pristine condition.
Hope you liked this time capsule. DC