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bigtree

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Sun Mar 20, 2022, 08:40 AM Mar 2022

Q-Branch thing

Paul Kirkley @prkirkley Mar 18
These are the buttons from my wife's granddad's WW2 RAF uniform. When you put them together, they make a mini-compass, for use if you get shot down behind enemy lines (which he did). It's the most Q-Branch thing I've ever seen.







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Q-Branch thing (Original Post) bigtree Mar 2022 OP
How cool. I've never heard of this before. Thanks! n/t Frustratedlady Mar 2022 #1
more bigtree Mar 2022 #3
Interesting. 2naSalit Mar 2022 #2

2naSalit

(86,330 posts)
2. Interesting.
Sun Mar 20, 2022, 09:34 AM
Mar 2022

The things that were invented for survival in wartime show that necessity is the mother of invention.

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