Outstanding WWII Memorabilia with Original Jacket and Caps
Item Details
A collection of outstanding World War II memorabilia with original jacket, caps, and other items. This great collection includes: a double pocket wool WWII Army Air Forces jacket with Sergeant patches and the 6th service command patch and unknown patch with ‘5’ on it; a size 6 7/8, tailored by Lewis, leather trimmed cap with insignia; two brown cloth uniform neck ties and a fringed white with rose detailed pillow cover with U.S. Army Air Forces, and slogan ‘Sister, of all the girls I ever knew, there never was one like you. You’re the nearest, you’re the dearest Pal I ever knew’, with Keesler Field, Miss. across the bottom of the pillow cover. Together with three woven uniform canvas webbing belts with various metal buckles; a group of seven uniform caps, of which one has Capt. J.B. Dennison written to interior and also stamped ‘J.B. Dennison o-792235’; a black and white photograph that shows an unknown male and Howard Lindner; a smaller black and white photo of an unknown male and Capt. J.B. Dennison; a woven cloth strip stamped repeatedly with ‘Dennison, H. W.’; a New Testament U.S. Army Bible, with introduction dated 1/25/1941 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; an ‘Army Life’ war department pamphlet 21-13 dated 8/10/1944; a pamphlet titled: Going Back To Civilian Life, dated 2/1946; a leather zippered tobacco pouch; two embroidered patches, one black and orangish/gold Air Corps insignia patch, and the other one unknown; a cotton cap with bill; and a group of WW II papers that include: postcards, a ticket to the National Air Races in Cleveland, discharge papers, diploma from Army Air Forces Training Command, The Amended GI Bill of Rights dated 12/28/1945, and Wheeler’s Civil Air Regulations Examination Questions and Answers dated 1949.
Dimensions
Measurement is for the jacket at shoulders. Jacket is marked size 34R on label.
Item #
15CIN122-148
