HaHa!! My Dad was a Captain in the Army and oversaw a Red Ball Express depot....lots of things went through...HEAPS of typewriters were brought in, to few takers, or so Dad said...sooo, a little black market in Remington typewriters to the locals and a connection or 2 and voila! a big diamond for my mum. I only found this out reading a draft copy of a book he had written after my mum died in 2002...
Cheers