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Nearly all soldiers carry a spoon in their kit, but it’s hard to imagine it could be useful in combat. But in 1943, Army 1st Lt. Dwight “Steve” Varner used a teaspoon to bamboozle German and Italian soldiers into surrendering during fierce fighting in Africa. 
On May 5, 1943, Varner was a company commander in the 1st Armored Division, and attacked heavily defended German and Italian positions in northern Tunisia.
According to retired Air Force Col. Douglas Sterner, an historian of U.S.