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 WWII Medals and Documents
MM-1005  Nice cased and numbered Purple Heart. $175
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
MM-1003  Nice cased and numbered Purple Heart. $175$SOLD$
MM-1002  WW2 Purple Heart cased. Some soiling. $100
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$
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$
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$
MM-997  WW2 Cased Purple Heart. $150
MM-996  WW2 named Bronze Star for Gustav A. Pfuhlmann of New York. $95$SOLD$
MM-995  WW2 Bronze Star grouping with New York Conspicuous Service Cross. Letter and photo are photocopies. $100
MM-994  Bronze Star lot with cap, named as shown. $100
  MM-988  WW2 Purple Heart medal cases. Tough to find on the loose!  $40
MM-982  Cased Air Medal with a wonderful painted patch with mission bombs. $375$SOLD$
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

  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
  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
  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
  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
MM-936  W2 American Defense medal with "Fleet" bar. $40
MM-843  Air Medal engraved "Robert S. Stevens". Unresearched. $125
MM-842  WWII slot broach Air Medal. $60
MM-829  Post WWII "China Service" medal in the original box. $110
MM-760   WWII slot broach Air Medal. $60
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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