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 WWII Medals and Documents
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
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

       During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, at 12:55, Dorchester was torpedoed by German submarine U-223. The damage was severe, boiler power was lost, and there was inadequate steam to sound the full 6-whistle signal to abandon ship, and Dorchester sank by the bow in about 20 minutes. Loss of power prevented the crew from sending a radio distress signal, and no rockets or flares were launched to alert the escorts.  Survivors in the water were so stiff from cold they could not even grasp the cargo nets on rescue vessels.  Escanaba saved 133 men (one died later) and Comanche saved 97 men of the 904 aboard Dorchester.The sinking of Dorchester was the worst single loss of American personnel of any American convoy during World War II.
      Life jackets offered little protection from hypothermia, which killed most men in the water. Water temperature was 34 °F (1 °C) and air temperature was 36 °F (2 °C). When additional rescue ships arrived on February 4 "hundreds of dead bodies were seen floating on the water, kept up by their life jackets."
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 Their mission was to figure out just how far the enemy had withdrawn.
It was "a clear, warm and sunny day like you get on Long Island in July or August," recalled Private Robert Corwin. As his company crossed the Lunga, he dipped out of line with his buddy Charlie Debele to fill canteens. Suddenly, "the stillness was broken by a burst of fire." A Marine just ahead of him "crumpled like a sack of wheat. [Another] hesitated for a moment, the machine gun spat again, and then he went down too. Neither of them made a sound."
Baker Company's lead platoon had walked into a killing zone covered by no less than six Japanese machine guns. A few of the survivors who managed to reach safety recalled hearing the chilling calls of Japanese gunners: "Come here, please. Come here, please."
On 25 September 1942, a follow-up patrol found the ambush site and buried seventeen bodies. An eighteenth was reportedly buried by a Raider unit. It was the bloodiest and most disastrous patrol action since the Goettge Patrol, though it never reached the same level of notoriety.
In 1944, nine of the eighteen bodies were recovered from the field and reburied in the Guadalcanal cemetery. Nine still remain on Guadalcanal. $250
MM-998  Government engraved and cased Purple Heart for a Soldier who was wounded in action. Needs research. $295
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)
MM-460  WWII Pacific Theater Battle Streamer, Burma 1941-42.  $35

 

 

 

 

 

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