Navy Vet Reunited With His Lost Wallet After 69 Years

Posted by admin on Jun 4, 2010

It took 69 years, but World War II Navy veteran Robert Bell, 88, has been reunited with his lost wallet.

Bell’s wallet disappeared in Chicago in 1941. Stationed in Florida, Bell was in Illinois for four months of training in hydraulics repair at the Chicago Vocational School, which had been turned over to the Navy.

Twenty five years later, electrician Bob Jordan found the wallet in a basement crawl space at the school. It held Bell’s American Legion membership card, a Masonic Lodge card, his Social Security card, government life insurance forms, and photos — including images of Bell in his Navy uniform and of his then-girlfriend, who later became his wife and died in a car accident when their son was 3 years old.

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