101st Airborne
This is a group I acquired locally several years ago that belonged to veteran Ellwood F. Gee, a trooper from Battery A, 907th GFAB (Glider Field Artillery battallion), 101st Airborne. The following items were owned by the veteran and include:
• Wool shirt with Type 6 “White Tongue” 101st Airborne shoulder sleeve insignia, T4 chevrons, and veterans name and partial Army serial number printed inside
• Wool shirt with Type 4 101st Airborne shoulder sleeve insignia, T4 chevrons and veteran’s name and partial Army serial number printed inside
• Wool trousers w/ soldier’s name and full Army service number printed numerous times inside the waistband
• A copy of Gee’s final pay voucher verifying his discharge on 01/02/1946
• 12 original snapshots including images of Gee and his buddies taken in Germany in 1945
• An English Christmas card and postmarked (11/11/1944) envelope with the return address “Cpl. Ellwood F. Gee 37467550, Btry. “A” 907th Gli FA Bn, APO472, c/o Postmaster New York, New York.” Hand written inside the card, Ellwood wrote to his wife, “No reindeer left this year. All my love, McGee.” Enclosed in the card is an embroidered handkerchief that says, “From England To My Dear Wife.”
• A full color booklet about Berchtesgaden (Hitler’s Eagles Nest), where the 101st occupied at the close of the war. Inside the booklet, Gee penned, “Germany May 1945.” I have seen this exact booklet in other 101st groups.
• Two ribbon bars (ETO Campaign Medal and American Campaign Medal)
This group is 100% original. All the insignia is nicely machine sewn on the shirts. The 907th GFAB did very interesting things in WWII and this is an opportunity to own a historical uniform group ID’d to this unit.
Price: Sold
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101st Airborne
This uniform was worn by the Battalion Surgeon for the 466th PFA (17th Airborne). He jumped near Wesel, Germany on March 24, 1945 during Operation Varsity and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for his actions on this day. When the 17th Airborne disbanded, he went to the 463rd PFA (101st Airborne), then the 456th PFA (82nd Airborne). This veteran is credited with creating an irrigation device for eye wounds that is still used by medical personnel in the field today.
The group includes:
- Officers overseas cap w/ para glider patch and pin-back Captain bars
- Ike jacket with the following attached:
- 17th Airborne patch
- 82nd Airborne patch
- Officer Medical ciphers
- Officer “US” ciphers
- Pin-back Captain bars
- Presidential Unit Citation
- Sterling Pin-back Combat Medic Badge
- Belgium Fourragere (shoulder cord)
- French Fourragere (shoulder cord)
- Three-place sewn on ribbon bar with Bronze Star Medal (For Valor), American Campaign, ETO Campaign w/ 1 Invasion Arrowhead (for Operation Varsity) and 3 Campaign Stars (Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe)
- Red Wool Parachute Oval (for Artillery)
- Pinback “Sterling” marked jump wings with a combat star affixed (for Operation Varsity)
- Three overseas stripes
- Wool trousers w/ name penned in two places (see pics)
- Tan web belt
- Jump Boots w/ vet’s name inked on both tongues (see pic). They are size 10 1/2 D and dated July 26, 1943.
- Original print of veteran posing beside his uniform
- Copies of WWII images of veteran posing with his family
- Copy of Separation Record
- Copy of General Order for Bronze Star Medal
- Copy of the write up for the 466th PFA’s recommendation for the Unit Citation, in which the veteran is mentioned several times
- Copy of General Order for Combat Medic Badge
- Copies of Special/Transfer Orders
- Photocopies of Unit related articles the veteran kept
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101st Airborne
Here is a WWII uniform from my personal collection. It is not for sale.
This uniform grouping was worn by a PFC in Service Company 401st GIF, 101st Airborne. The vet was a post D-Day replacement and fought in Holland (Operation Market Garden), where he was seriously wounded and spent the next year and a half in hospitals recovering.
His uniform has a three-place ribbon bar an with ETO ribbon w/ two campaign stars, Good Conduct ribbon, and Purple Heart ribbon. The ribbon bar pin is broken and the insignia was sewn to the uniform upside down, causing the ribbons to be in reverse order, but that is how the uniform was received from the vet, so it was left as is.
Included with the group are several V-Mail and regular letters he sent home, a 101st Airborne unit history book and booklet, and recent photos of the vet holding the uniform pieces. His overseas cap has an interesting para/glider patch variant.
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101st Airborne
This Ike jacket was worn by a 101st Airborne trooper who served in 504th Bn (later 509th), then the 501st PIR. While with the 501st, he served in Headquarters Company, then got transferred to F Co prior to the Normandy jump. In addition to jumping in Normandy, this soldier jumped in Holland and fought in Bastone and Southern Germany. He received two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.
Interesting features on this Ike Jacket include a wool Allied Airborne patch, an English made wool Airborne tab over the 101st patch, English made overseas stripes, and modified Belgian fourragère.
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