Zippo

A Zippo lighter is a reusable metal lighter produced by Zippo Manufacturing Company of Bradford, Pennsylvania, Ernie Pyle, a famous war correspondent and newspaperman, Was a pal of George Blaisdell and personally received a shipment of 50 Zippos prior to the D-Day invasion. Pyle famously penned a letter to Blaisdell on Oct. 29, 1944: “If I tried to tell you how much these Zippos are coveted at the front and the gratitude and delight with which the boys receive them, you would probably accuse me of exaggeration,” he wrote. “There is truly nothing the average soldier would rather have.”