Some Homelife in Pennsylvania During WWII

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I sat down to process this when I learned of the Trump assassination attempt. So delayed a bit as I sought to discover what happened. He's fine but a bystander was killed along with the shooter.

Today I hit a yard sale at a gun club where I got some mess kits at last year. Nothing military this year. Next stop was a huge community sale we have had good luck getting normal things at over the years as the entire town is basically Mennonites. Not much military at their sales and this isn't military but historically significant IMHO.

Pennsylvania back in those days produced a metal license plate each year. They alternated the colors each year, blue on yellow and yellow on blue, probably as a quick check to see if they were current.

In 1942, they were blue on yellow and for 1943, due to a steel shortage because of the war, in 1943 they introduced a small metal plate to continue the existing plate through to 1944. This was the only year they did this. In 1944 plates were printed yellow on blue.

So, there are no 1943 license plates. These are two examples, one for a passenger car, the other for a truck.

The red keystone is said to be representative of the 28th Infantry Division which is the Pennsylvania National Guard.