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MM-1001 Interesting 4TH Marine Division KIA and Photo
lot for a Marine Corporal killed at the Battle of Iwo
Jima. Includes a nice portrait photo, Town Certificate,
original discharge, State of Massachusetts certificate,
Gold star Mothers pin with enclosure letter. Historic set.
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MM-1000 Very historic WW2 Purple Heart for a Soldier
who was killed when the Troop Transport Dorchester was
torpedoed on February 3RD, 1943. Government engraved and
numbered in original case with original outer box. This
disaster was also known due to the "Four
Chaplains". They were four of the Army officers among
the military personnel being transported overseas for duty:
they died because they gave up their life jackets to save
others. Congress established February 3 as "Four Chaplains
Day" to commemorate this act of heroism. $550$SOLD$
During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, at
12:55, Dorchester was
torpedoed by
German submarine U-223. The damage was severe,
boiler power was lost, and there was inadequate steam to
sound the full 6-whistle signal to abandon ship, and
Dorchester sank by the bow in about 20 minutes. Loss of
power prevented the crew from sending a radio distress
signal, and no rockets or flares were launched to alert the
escorts. Survivors in the water were so stiff from
cold they could not even grasp the cargo nets on rescue
vessels. Escanaba saved 133 men (one died
later) and Comanche saved 97 men of the 904 aboard
Dorchester.The sinking of Dorchester was the
worst single loss of American personnel of any American
convoy during World War II.
Life jackets offered little protection from
hypothermia, which killed most men in the water. Water
temperature was 34 °F (1 °C) and air temperature was 36 °F
(2 °C). When additional rescue ships arrived on February 4
"hundreds of dead bodies were seen floating on the water,
kept up by their life jackets."
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MM-999 Guadalcanal Marine casualty commemorative
plaque. On 17 September 1942, the First Battalion 1st
Marines mounted a patrol up the Lunga River on Guadalcanal.
The route would take them past "Edson's Ridge," the scene of
a recent Japanese defeat. Their mission was to figure out
just how far the enemy had withdrawn.
It was "a clear, warm and sunny day like you get on
Long Island in July or August," recalled Private
Robert Corwin. As his company crossed the Lunga, he
dipped out of line with his buddy Charlie Debele to
fill canteens. Suddenly, "the stillness was broken
by a burst of fire." A Marine just ahead of him
"crumpled like a sack of wheat. [Another] hesitated
for a moment, the machine gun spat again, and then
he went down too. Neither of them made a sound."
Baker Company's lead platoon had walked into a
killing zone covered by no less than six Japanese
machine guns. A few of the survivors who managed to
reach safety recalled hearing the chilling calls of
Japanese gunners: "Come here, please. Come here,
please."
On 25 September 1942, a follow-up patrol
found the ambush site and buried seventeen
bodies. An eighteenth was reportedly buried
by a Raider unit. It was the bloodiest and
most disastrous patrol action since the
Goettge Patrol, though it never reached the
same level of notoriety.
In 1944, nine of the eighteen bodies were
recovered from the field and reburied in the
Guadalcanal cemetery. Nine still remain on
Guadalcanal. $250ON
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MM-998 Government engraved and cased Purple Heart for
a Soldier who was wounded in action. Needs research. $295$SOLD$ |
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MM-997 WW2 Cased Purple Heart. $150 |
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MM-996 WW2 named Bronze Star for Gustav A. Pfuhlmann
of New York. $95$SOLD$ |
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MM-995 WW2 Bronze Star grouping with New York
Conspicuous Service Cross. Letter and photo are
photocopies. $100 |
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MM-994 Bronze Star lot with cap, named as shown.
$100 |
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MM-988 WW2 Purple Heart medal cases. Tough to find
on the loose! $40 |
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MM-982 Cased Air Medal with a wonderful painted patch
with mission bombs. $375$SOLD$ |
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MM-980 Very nice Medal/ Unit History grouping.
Includes his cased Bronze Star, Good Conduct and ETO medals,
dog tags, regimental unit history and roster, unit photo and
Railsplitter pocket history and other pamphlets and ribbon
bars. $395
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MM-951 WW2 Town and City Medals are much tougher to find
than their WW1 counterparts. They seen to have fallen out
of favor by 1945. This one is from, Wayne County, PA $30 |
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MM-950 WW2 Town and City Medals are much tougher to find
than their WW1 counterparts. They seen to have fallen out
of favor by 1945. This one is from, Kenosha County, Wis.
$30 |
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MM-949 WW2 Town and City Medals are much tougher to find
than their WW1 counterparts. They seen to have fallen out
of favor by 1945. This one is from, Wayne County, PA. $30 |
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MM-948 WW2 Town and City Medals are much tougher to find
than their WW1 counterparts. They seen to have fallen out
of favor by 1945. This one is from, Barnstable, MA. $30 |
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MM-936 W2 American Defense medal with "Fleet" bar.
$40 |
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MM-843 Air Medal engraved "Robert S. Stevens".
Unresearched. $125 |
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MM-842 WWII slot broach Air Medal. $60 |
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MM-829 Post WWII "China Service" medal in the original box.
$110 |
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MM-760 WWII slot broach Air Medal. $60 |
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MM-746 Scarce small lot of WWII boxed Bronze
Stars. Each medal is still wrapped in the original paper
with box. Price is $35 each.
(2 left) |
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MM-460
WWII Pacific Theater Battle Streamer, Burma 1941-42.
$35
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