"Many a life has been saved" ...with jewelry!

Found in a department store ad in 1943, a plea for people to donate their discarded costume jewelry to become "Barter Jewelry" for the boys in the South Pacific. A group of women connected with the Fourth Fighter Command were gathering the jewelry to send to the South Pacific for the troops to use for bartering for food shelter and information from the natives. Note the slogan at the bottom of the ad...it was certainly a different time! Wartime to be exact! (click pic to enlarge)