Charles Stankoven purchased this package of Lucky Strike cigarettes on the RMS Queen Mary troop ship for five cents. He never opened the pack. The HMS Queen Mary was a luxury liner converted to troopship. This vessel carried the whole 1st Infantry Division across the Atlantic in one voyage in August 1942.
Cigarettes
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Unit26th Infantry Regiment
Date1942
ConflictWorld War II
NationalityAmerican
RightsFirst Division Museum
Identifier1988.18.7
On-DisplayNo
Citation"Cigarettes." First Division Museum. Accessed April 25, 2024, https://www.fdmuseum.org/collections/cigarettes/.
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