Rare Unopened WW2 Escape & Evasion Gold Kit!
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- čas přidán 28. 11. 2022
- In this video, we show you a rare WW2 escape and evasion kit! This was a kit filled with gold coins and other valuables, given to US Naval pilots to barter with locals if they were shot down in enemy territory. Ours was never opened! We x-rayed it and found out that our coins are still inside!
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When I was in SAC, back in the early 1970's, B52 air crews had gold Sovereigns in their survival bags.
Being a military surplus collector and a collector of Numismatics, this would drive me nuts! Very cool piece.
When the British SAS of Bravo 2 Zero and other missions were in Iraq in 1991 that were given gold coins and hid them inside their belts for bribery if it could help but most never gave them back and framed them with a mission map, however it was decided best to take it down off the wall if their commanding officer came over to visit!
I remember watching a story on Nat Geo or Military a channel on them during the gulf war on a mission that didn’t go as planned. Some seriously tough men there.
@@Nick_B_Bad And unfortunately the Bravest of them, Sgt. Vince Philips, Robert Consiglio and 'Legs' Lane Never came Back, RIP
Years ago I read that some guy decades ago bid on a lot of army surplus items and included was a crate with several hundred escape and evasion kits. The guy won the bid, got the items to his store or warehouse and the kits contained the gold coins.
How about the recent surplus fiasco of someone buying a lot of Hardigg 10 rifle cases from an auction site with one of them containing a full case of 10 M16 A2s 🤣 They reported the find of the select fire government serialized rifles, which came with an immediate seizure of the rifles and a thorough search of the lot of cases 😐 I hope they got a finders fee for actually returning them! I also feel bad for the few guys that had successfully covered up 10 missing M16s for who knows how many years 😄 Hopefully they are all out by now and have some remaining plausible deniability 😂 I'm sure several guys really started sweating when that news story broke!
Lucky Strikes and Hershey bars worked best for the paratroopers in WWII.
Tom, you've discovered more gold just hanging around your office this week than those guys on Oak Island have in the past decade.
Those guys, are about at their breaking point..
Slightly more impressive than the $100 I was issued flying in Iraq
You only got one bribe,if you choose wisely you ll be fine,its all depend on your choice,understand?
Sir yess sir ,goddamnit!
I would almost bet that the development of this kit came from the O.S.S. I wonder if they didn't also have kits without any identifying script that were "classified" and issued to the O.S.S. officers being dropped behind the lines. It would take some real nut to do that, and they would need every advantage possible to survive. In any event, I never heard of this kit until today. Fascinating.
Good one, Tom. Never heard of those.
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that's vulcanite Tom the same stuff they make smoking pipe stems out of and they used to make pistol grips from! and you'd need a special press to reseal that!
I remember reading that before desert storm started in January '91 SAS troops deployed behind lines would have gold coins sewn into their kit or belt, makes perfect sense, just in case.
all special forces carry what they call a blow out kit that has both currency and gold coins in it! i think the SAS kits had $1200 in cash (Swiss francs i think) and gold sovereigns and the US kits have $600 to a $1,000 in US hundreds and Kugerands if i remember right!
Think did that on their own
Gold and silver...real money.
I had no idea such things existed.
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Seen one one Pawn Stars. Valuable.
Facinating indeed!
Great video. I’ve never heard of these before.
Only legacy collectibles where you can find the impossible - that's why the name is legacy.
If i find one norfolk verginia has to wait a little longer...lol
I don't believe it would have gone to OSS personnel behind enemy lines, They didn't like to carry items that had English printed on them, it would kinda give them away, just saying.
Nice job Tom
Pretty cool!
Thank s Tom!
Thats so cool!!!!
Wow, very interesting -- what a treasure! +1 Like
Wouldn't surprise me if some were issued to Jedburgs or OSS operatives.
👍Interesting. Thx .
Pretty cool
Thank you for this great video! And congrats , for causing me troubles! Now I have one problem more regarding my collection: I NEED THAT KIT , hhhahahahah
“What the heck it it?” Steve Martin SNL. 🤣
Could you xray it to see if something in there or actually a metal detector would be handy too.
Did you watch the video?
Yes, we x-rayed it and the coins and rings are in there.
@@yesitreallyisme No, I didn't a chance to watch it all. Had to go back to work. Yes, I see they xrayed it. Cool.
That explains the question.
wow!!!!
Coins are inside this box
Tom, will you through in one of your 7.00 gift boxes if I buy this? I can see your boxes being sold at RIA auction in 50 years!!!
Were there naval aviators in the European theater?
I mean U.S.N., of course.
There certainly was in the Atlantic and the Med. When the US entered the war it had three fleet carriers Ranger, Hornet, and Wasp and the escort carrier Long Island. I would have to look up how many at war's end.
Thanks!
@@rockeypoole5480 No probs, take care.
Those are only issued to masons. And it is still done to this very day.
Maybe that's why President Roosevelt made it illegal for people to have gold back then
No that was to control the money supply during the depression
@@tomhenry897 control the money supply during the Depression years nobody had any money in their pockets they had what you call deflation which a lot of people don't know nothing about the dollar could buy you a lot if you had a dollar in your pocket Roosevelt had a law if you were caught selling items in your store or Services less than anybody else you would be charged with a federal crime I think it was Ben Bernanke quoted that the United States could have got out of the depression if they would have handed out stimulus money
@@tomhenry897 as far as the gold I heard different reasons why Roosevelt made it illegal for American citizens to have gold
So just the navy got them
Sounds like locked up more then issued as would have been stolen
Look at my cool black plastic box I just $15,000 for…
Exactly what I thought. Nothing there to enjoy...
'What the heck is it"?.................
Totally underwhelming...