Auction Date:2012 May 23 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Original and large CBI (China-Burma-India) theater of war scrapbook, compiled by Colonel Ralph Marshall during his tour of duty in World War II, while serving with the B-24 Liberators of the 493rd Bomb Squadron. Marshall was a heavily decorated officer who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, among other citations. Hardcover scrapbook measures 15.5 x 11.25 and contains 44 pages, mostly with items on both sides, full of candid photos, news clippings, maps, personal and historical mementos, and other keepsakes.
Highlights of the scrapbook include: an original theater-made hand-painted leather squadron patch of the 493rd Bomb Squadron. Patch measures 6.25? in diameter and depicts an armored hand firmly grasping a bomb; a pristine folded 7.75 silk blood chit and escape flag; three large folded color silk escape maps of Southeast China, Central and Indo China, and North and South Burma; a child’s mitten carried on every mission by Marshall; dozens of snapshots of Marshall’s base and friends, some signed, as well as snapshots of visited countries; dropped propaganda leaflet, currency, and matchbook; currency from various countries visited; and Marshall’s orders home. In very good condition, with expected wear, repaired covers, loose spine, and duct tape to covers.
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