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April 23, 2015

Bit of history: Zippo/Case Museum World War II artifacts heading to Pittsburgh

One of the Zippo/Case Museum’s most historically significant pieces — a lighter that was hand engraved on a landing craft en route to the D-Day invasion — is currently on

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