Four-star General's bucket

[Okan]

Not sure if you’ve seen this photo before, but I thought I should share it. This is General Walter Krueger, who presented a Masamune to President Truman.

 

 

 

 

 

[John C]

...and we worry about scratching the darn things.

 

John C.

[Lewis B]

It gets worse. Not a glove or cloth in sight. 

 

[PNSSHOGUN]

General Kreuger was commander during the Philipines campaign followed by occupation duty in Kyoto. May explain the mix of military and traditional swords.

[Okan]

 

[Okan]

Krueger could have easily kept the Masamune for himself and given Truman a Gunto like MacArthur did to Roosevelt..I think that’s what he was thinking in the first picture.  

[KungFooey]

He seemed real concerned everyone knew how many stars he had. (Or maybe he was fishing for number 5?)

[Smee78]

Sgt Pyle,

 

Please send up the bucket of swords, we have to recognize another cabinet member.......

 

Great pictures of history

[John C]

Is that bucket made from a large artillery shell? Anzio Annie perhaps?

 

John C.

[David Flynn]

Seeing this is the Pacific theatre, I doubt it's from Anzio Annie.  More likely a Japanese Artillery piece.

[John C]

3 hours ago, David Flynn said:

More likely a Japanese Artillery piece.

I wasn't sure because I thought naval ships used case-less ammo and I couldn't think of an artillery piece that would fire something that big. The largest howitzer shell we used was a 240mm, which I think is smaller than that can.

 

John C.

[EdWolf]

Looks like a WW1 German shell. Dicke Bertha howitzer shell. 

https://www.kaisersbunker.com/cc/cc16.htm