Winter 2021 Militaria & Collectibles Auction
Lot 68A:
Huge lot of items to Richard A. Day Jr. of the 53rd Signal Battalion. He served in the US Army Signal Corps in WWII in North Africa, Italy and the Philippines. After a brief stint running a family laundry business in Peterborough NH, he joined RCA as a technical representative to the USAF in the UK where he lived with his family for seven years. In 1957 he joined the NSA. The group includes his four pocket dress uniform with II Corps and Sixth Army patches, rank, overseas stripes, his khaki shirt with First Army and II Corps patches, several wool uniform items to include sweaters, socks, and a face mask, a sterling silver lighter, Stars and Stripes newspapers, numerous capture documents for German and Japanese items, captured Italian and German paperwork, photos to include some vehicles, Germans, bodies, books to include one about Ernie Pyle where he annotates his thoughts, an early family book from the 1800-1900s detailing family exploits and containing an envelope of a lady’s hair. A captured Italian military newspaper taken from Rome on the Day the US liberated it in June 1944. Also many US and UK ration booklets, a hand named utility bag, and a pillow cover made in Italy with a beautiful woven II Corps insignia from 1945. Lots of items here, and photos show only some of it.
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