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Help with translating characters from WWII item

sfbaywalk

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This was acquired by my girlfriend's father during or shortly after WWII. He said that it is part of a Japanese soldier's mess kit. The characters on the front of the box are also on the back of the sliding cover, except the back has more characters. I guess that the first three characters is someone's name. jref says I don't have enough posts to provide a link. So, at the beginning, please put h t t p : / / w w w .
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It looks something like this:

ナスl
窶吮??
窶佚?
ヒ彁
窶敕
ツ静ャ
窶處
窶「s
窶ーテ
ツ?
I'm not sure about the first two, the writing is not very good - actually bad written as if written by 5 years old - and those I guessed two characters could be actually just one character...
窶吮?? could be 窶ケナセ, again I cannot see it well.
ツ?ツ?窶佚?ヒ彁窶敕 should mean "?? company troop No.6" (military) and ツ静ャ窶處 might be a person's family name (or name of place).

My knowledge about Japanese soldiers and military during WWII is almost nil, I hope someone would be able to recognize what is written and post it here.
 
Thanks. The characters are carved. Probably explains why they are primitive.
 
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