WW2 Reenacting Personal Printable Items

Hygiene

Hobsons Soap 4oz Airborne – Looks to be some kind of 101st Airborne -branded soap box. Made by the Hobson Soap Co. out of New York. Print on cardstock and then cut and fold where applicable. The soap was likely wrapped in paper inside the container. Use any standard 4-oz soap bar.

French Soap Savon fin Milled – Product of France. Size and container unknown. Probably printed on white paper. So you may need to retype the text.

Soap OQMG No. 100-A-Type 1 4 oz – Bar of soap wrapper. Print regular paper. Use a standard 4-oz soap bar. The soap wrapper was made waterproof somehow. Maybe dipped in wax or used white waxpaper to wrap the soap, and then put the soap in the box.

Ivory Soap Large Size –

Lifebuoy Soap Box –

Mennen Brushless Shave –

Craig Martin Toothpaste Box –

Individual Chemical Prophylactic Packet G.Barr and Co – Kit used to treat venereal disease

British Red Cross Parcel Label – a label that would be fixed to Red Cross packages coming from Britain.

Aspirin 200 tablets 325 MG each 1943 – Box to put aspirin tablets into. Unsure if there was an inner package or not. Print on brown cardstock.

Foot Powder 1/5 Ounce packet – Print on brown bag-like paper, fold and glue, and wrap in cellophane. Put 1/5 ounce of foot powder into it. Five of these go into a Foot Powder, 1 Ounce box. For another packet to print, see here.

US Condom wrapper – Forthcoming. For a historical review of condoms in wartime service, see Condoms in WW2.

Toilet Paper Package – The US Army got 22 sheets wrapped up in brown kraft paper. About 6in in wide by 4in. long

Fold in the sides to the center. Fold up the bottom to about a third. Use some Elmer’s type glue to glue the bottom. Put toilet paper in the top. You can glue the top down or leave it open so you can reuse the package. Note that you really have to smash the paper in.

Strong Set Shaving Brush Box –

Shaving Cream Boxes –
Barbasol Tube – maybe prewar?
Barbasol Tube variant 2 – WW2 Era

Razor Blade Boxes –
Gem Micromatic Razor Blade packet – probably 1 per packet
The Fleet Safety Razor Blade– 1-5 per packet? English. Made by Dominion Steel Corp.
Gillette Razor Blade packet – 5 per packet
Valet Auto Strop Razor 5 Blades packet – 5 per packet
Gold Stern Razor Blade packet – German, 5 per packet

1 Razor Safety Gillette box –

Pocket Trash

Red Cross Snack Bar Ticket Nibble for a Nickel – A Red Cross ticket to purchase something at a snack bar.

This measures 1.75in wide by 3in long. This was originally taken from an eBay listing in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

The paper type is unknown. It’s not cardstock, but not regular 8.11in by 11in printing paper. Worthpoint has a picture of a similar model (that doesn’t include the pedestal).

The PDF hasn’t been tested, but if needed, you can download the document file and make edits.

As it’s supposed to be Romulus and Remus, it’s probably a Red Cross Ticket associated with the Italian Campaign.

Nite Club Texas–

World’s Fair 1939 Tickets –

100ct Halazone Blue Label and Green Label and Wrap around label – Produced by Abbott Laboratories. These would come in a small brown glass bottle. IMA has some examples of these bottles here.

Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Permit No. 157416 | For use by a member of the US armed forces or its allies. It is dated 2 Dec 1944.

3.5in wide by 2.25in long.

The paper type is unknown, as is the use case. There is no PDF associated with this; you’d have to take the images and create one.

V-Mail and Writing

V-Mail Envelope – This has two parts. The front and the rear. Print off the front first on a standard 8.5×11 sheet of printing paper. Then, flip it over such that the address on the rear is at the bottom (link to my Google Drive) when holding the front. See the image gallery for specifics.

Then fill out the V-mail using a pencil or a WW2-era pen. Fold the sides inward and then close it.

Note that the actual V-Mail is 9.25 inches high by 11in. wide. This is because the envelope closure lip extends out.

Another vmail printing example is here: V-Mail scan 95pct of original size to print on Letter size.

Fighting Man’s Notebook and The Service Tablet – Two types of notebooks. I made the Fighting Man’s one, and it turned out pretty well. The Service Tablet doesn’t include the number of pages.

1944 Calendar – a pocket-sized/wallet-sized paper calendar. Other calendars including a 1943 one can be downloaded here. Size is unknown.

US Army Postcard I’m Writing Under Difficulties –

Communiques Illustrated Correspondence Postcard Series –

Misc

GI Jerry Guide Book by Lt Dave Berger – A PDF of about a dozen GI Jerry comics. Lt Dave Berger was a cartoonist who published a book of his comics in 1945. His Wikipedia article explains more.

Army Hit Kit Dec 1943 – A list of popular songs in Dec 1943.

Coleman Stove Precautions Labels –

Pryms Super Steel Safety Pins –

Cadie Polishing Cloth – The cloth itself is a metal polishing cloth. Probably a kind of Jewelers Rouge Polishing cloth. Size is unknown but I doubt the size of that cloth has changed.

BA-30 US Label Print – This is the label for the US Army version. There were some off-the-shelf batteries that the US Govt bought (and then stamped), but I’ve only included this label. There’s also a European Label Print, and it seems like you’d need to use A4 to print.

I would recommend using an Adhesive Printer Label when you print to make it easier to wrap the label around the battery. You’d likely need to experiment a bit with which label is going to work best.

BA-2 US Label Print– 22.5 volts. Comes in a green label and a white label.

Eveready Ignitor No 6 Dry Cell Battery 6 in x 2.5 in – PDF file. Unsure how to exactly print it off. You might need to experiment.

WW2 Era Film Canister Boxes –

Film AGFA 35mm
Film Box – Kodak Super XX
Film AGFA 120
Film Kodak PANATOMIC-X_120
Film Kodak Super XX 620
Film Kodak Super XX 520
Film Kodak Super XX 135
Film Kodak Super XX 120
Kodax Plus X Safety Film – This box is dated 1957 but someone might find it helpful.

Tobacco

Easy to Pick-up VD Matchbook Label –

Army Air Force Officers Club, Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson Arizona Matchbook – Keep em Flying! You may need to make adjustments so it can be positioned over an off-the-shelf matchbook. Printing has not been tested.

Bryant and Mays Brymay Special Safety Match – British made

Tobacco Box Tax Stamp – A stamp that would be affixed to secure the box and verify that taxes on it have been paid. The stamp banner seems to be cut off, but that may not matter, as you would fold this over the lid to secure it.

1943 CIGARETTE TAX STAMP – Cigarette Tax Stamps are numbered by year. Look at the small blue number below the “0” in the number 20. The date of manufacture is 1910 years greater than the 3-digit number shown. So just add 110 + 1910 = 1940 / 111 + 1910 = 1941 / 112 + 1910 = 1942 / 113 + 1910 = 1943 / 114 + 1910 = 1944 / 115 + 1910 = 1945

Big John Tobacco – Made by the John Weisert Tobacco Company out of St Louis. For a brief history of the tobacco industry in St Louis, see: https://notgoodatnormal.com/the-tobacco-history-of-st-louis/.