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Briefcase for dead reckoning navigation equipment

This book from the British Information services provides a photographical overview with prominent headings including: outlining how Britain went to war, the first clinch, the second armistice fo Compiegne, The Year Lone Begins, The Battle of Britain, The Blitz, Total War on The Home Front, the fourth climacteric, Japan Makes it Global, Bomber Command Comes of Age, The Tide Turns, Battle of the Atlantic, Reverse Lend-Lease and Mutual Aid, Springboard for Liberation, and D-Day, A 1945 Christmas Card from the British Information Services is also included.

This rectangular shaped soldered tin storage container with lid was used in Red Cross parcels for Allied prisoners of war. A paper label is attached to the lid printed with "With Compliments from The British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem."