Look at my treasures!
Thu., June 16, 2005
Mark Eaton, Spokane Valley, is a passionate collector of military items.
His collection includes a room full of World War II-era uniforms, including helmets, flight jackets and insignia.
Eaton’s most unusual item is a gun turret from a B-24 Bomber he rescued from a junk yard near Yakima.
“We came home that night with two turrets in a very small truck,” he said. “It made for an interesting sight on the open road.”
Eaton credits his father, who flew in the B-24 Liberator for the Army Air Force during the war, for his own passion of all things WWII.
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