A couple of months ago my storage unit in Montrose Colorado was broken into. Much of the contents was recovered but some was lost. One was a Japanese Glass Fishing Float, greenish, about 10" in diameter. It was sent from Wake Island in 1941. My grandfather, Allan Asbury O'Guinn was a civilian construction worker, a plumber, working to build a military base there along with 1100 other civilian construction workers and about 450 Marines. He participated in the Battle of Wake, was captured, and spent the entire length of World War 2 in Japanese prison camps in Japan and China.
I know there is probably no way to get that object back but I wanted the community to know that it's missing and (possibly) in the world.
I'm not sure I can include photographs of it but I'd love to know more about it. It had what looks like a Japanese symbol cast into it. The symbol looked like a capital “T” where the left arm of the cross of the “T” went down on the left more than the right.
Topic: Stolen Japanese Glass Fishing Float (Read 875 times)
