Major Maness just may not have had an heirs or assigns and that was the reason all his War Trophy stuff was liquidated?? No, he did have @ least one daughter & she sold the whole lot in 2014.....

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Maness joined was somehow associated with the US Army in 1936-1937. Then he rejoined in 1941 and earned his keep starting in Oudja, Afrika in 1943. Later he was @ Normandy, then Holland and on to the Battle of the Bulge where in December 1944, he was promoted to Major. His last stint was as an occupation force in Berlin.



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