AWM PR03639.002

The case reads: For Use of U.S. Government Permit No. 1 Oct. 11, 1943. The cards are fanned out.

A pack of playing cards given to Ted Buerckner after being picked up by the USS Sealion in September 1944, following the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru on which he was being transported to Japan. AWM PR03639.002

Source
AWM PR03639.002
Place made
Ohio, United States of America

See also

Endurance: Stories of Australians in wartime captivity
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