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MM-1005 Nice cased and numbered Purple Heart. $175 |
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M-1004 Amazing 15TH Air Force
POW Grouping. Includes his ultra rare collection of
"Kreigie" items made and used in Stalag Luft 1!!!!
Rare set of wings mounted on the front of a photo album. In
addition his Stalag 1 Dog Tag is present as well as his US
Army Dog Tags. The Kreigie" Camp letters he sent home are
present as well as one he recieved in the Camp. He
apparently liked to cook and used his YMCA POW notebook to
log various reciepies he came up with. There is a color
small poster produced and used in the POW Camp to celebrate
the end of the War is the days before they were sprung from
the Camp. 2 small published booklets including "A Sad Story"
produced in Stalag Luft 1 and Lt Greening's (Doolittle Raid
Fame), "The Yankee Kriegies". There are numerous original
documents and records. He was awarded the Purple Heart, Air
Medal, Good Conduct and POW Medal. He was shot doen in 1944
and survived. His purple heart was issued at that time and
so was not engraved. The Air Medal may have also been
presented in the field. In addition there are various items
of insignia including wings and patches. A VERY IMPRESSIVE
grouping and a chance to get NINE POW made Kreigie wings.
This is an incredible archive that belonged to
Technical Sergeant George Foster (ASN 34 674 350)
from Lexington, North Carolina. He was assigned to the 15th
Air Force, 460th Bombardment Group, 762nd Bomb Squadron. who
was shot down with his crew over Yugoslavia on October 17th,
1944. (He was actually shot down twice! The first was August
27th, 1944 but he survived and was not captured). After
going down over Yugoslavia on 10/17/1945 he was captured
and served the duration of the War as a Prisoner of War
camp cook in Stalag Luft 1.
Before arriving at that camp he was transported to
various other Prisoner of War camps (Stalag Luft III and
Stalag Luft IV) throughout occupied Europe and Germany until
he was finally liberated in May 1945. T/Sgt Foster was
awarded the Silver Star, Purple Heart (for injuries
sustained on October 17th, 1944 in Southern Austria) the Air
Medal with Oak Leaf cluster and the Prisoner of War Medal.
He flew 9 combat missions as an on flight mechanic and
aerial gunner. After approximately 75 hours of combined
combat flight time, he and his crew were shot down.
The POW Camp Wings are mounted to the front board
of a photo album. The manufacture of insignia became a
cottage industry in some camps. The insignia, mostly
American and foreign aviators' wings, were made from lead
removed from used corned beef containers. They were traded
for tobacco products, chocolate D-bars, and other items.
Display boards were some- times used to mount collections of
prisoner-made insignia. This is a red, blue and white
fabric-covered photo album with nine wings. From top to
bottom, left to right, the insignia are those of an American
pilot, a British Paratrooper with POW in center, a Royal Air
Force pilot, a French pilot's device, Polish air gunners
badge, a Czechoslovakian air gunner, a Polish pilot, a
Soviet pilot, Polish Parachute Badge. The display board
measures 9 1/2 inches wide and 8 inches high. A very similar
POW wings display board, also from Stalag Luft I, can be
found in the excellent WWII POW book; "A War Time
Log" by Art and Lee Beltrone. $3995
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MM-1003 Nice cased and numbered Purple Heart. $175$SOLD$ |
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MM-1002 WW2 Purple Heart cased. Some soiling. $100 |
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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.
$495$SOLD$ |
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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$
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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.
In 1944, nine of the eighteen bodies were
recovered from the field and reburied in the
Guadalcanal cemetery. Nine still remain on
Guadalcanal. $250$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) |
