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Time Remaining To Bid: 14 days 15 hours 4 mins. 58 secs.
Item Will Close On: Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5761995

Category: L53 - Estate & Personal Collections

USAAF PILOT INSTRUCTOR FLIGHT JACKET AND HIS SUPER WING GROUPING, WWII

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This very nice lot belonged to pilot instructor stationed at Randolph Field, Texas, during WWII. Includes private purchase A-2 style leather flight jacket, size 40, w/ leather name tag & original working Talon zipper; A-9 cloth flight helmet w/ AAF stencil & chinstrap; Ray-Ban pilot`s sunglasses in leather case; 12 x 8" riker mount w/ wing collection including sterling PB glider pilot wings w/ engraved initials & dated 4/45, sterling PB CCA (Civil Aeronautics Administration) War Training Service wings & PB instructor wings, plus sterling CCA badges, dogtags, patches & photo; pilot logs; seven period snapshots of pilot in uniform; personal documents; Randolph Field pictorial book; lots more. This is a fantastic grouping of one of the unsung heroes of WWII - the men & women who stayed home to help w/ the war effort & without which the war might not have been won.  Super collection of one man's wings and a great jacket with fantastic documentation.  Real groups like this are getting very hard to come by.  Condition: 8

Opening Bid Amount: $1853

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