Spiess Collection :
Frank Spiess…A Man of the Guard…1920-1960.
Object Name:
Handkerchief
Year Range from:
1942
Year Range to:
1945
Description:
Women's Handkerchief
"Thelma" or maybe "Helena"
probably gifted to LTC Frank Spiess, 773 Tank Destroyer Battalion
during movement through Europe, 1944-45.
World War II

It was not uncommon for woman to give gifts such as this handkerchief to soldiers as they liberated towns in occupied Europe.
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