U.S. serviceman Boone drinking bottle of Coca-Cola in the CBI during World War II
Gift of Hiram Vance Boone
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U.S. serviceman Boone drinking bottle of Coca-Cola. "Hiram Boone drinking a warm Coca-Cola, one of two shipped to him by his wife Mattie Preston. One survived shipping and one was broken." CBI, probably India. 1945
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Items from the service of Hiram Boone, 612th Field Artillery Bn (75mm Pk How), 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) [Mars Task Force]. Also Included in archival folder: 17 reprint photographs (most grainy/low quality) of U.S. soldiers and fully loaded Army mules crossing pontoon bridges, rivers, and jungle terrain supposedly after leaving Camp Landis in Burma on way to China in 1945.
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BhÄrat
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20.000
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77.000
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Carbonated beverages--India