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Huge Lot USAAF B-17 Navigator Bill Sharkey, POW, Caterpillar Club, 12th AF, 301st BG, 32nd BS

Portrait Pictures of Sharkey in uniform, some colorized.

Full-sized Sterling Navigator Wings - puddle-soldered clutch-back.

Both Dog Tags

Prisoner of War Dog Tag - Stalag 3d

Crash Bracelet with Name and ASN

AAF "Pinwheel" Patch, Distinguished Flying Cross Ribbon, Aviation Cadet Sweetheart Pin, other Insignia.

VFW Ladies Auxiliary Pins (Top two Pins have wreaths marked 10K)

Professionally-framed Medal Grouping - ETO Campaign, American Campaign, Purple Heart, Prisoner of War, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster (unable to verify brooch styles).

2005 Letter from government listing medals awarded.

Framed Caterpillar Club Certificate dated July 26, 1944.

Copy of Accident Report date August 28, 1944 (no post war interviews with the three surviving crewmembers, though).

Docs printed from ancestry research sites - enlistment record, narrated account regarding the incident (midair collision with another B-17), etc.

Many Kriegsgefangener Letters and Post Cards to and from Sharkey and his Fiance, Mary Swan. "We live 8 men to a room in a regular wooden barracks." Some letters have been redacted by censors (see photos).

Booklet from Ellington Field in Burlington, Texas, plus a great letter from Sharkey to his fiance written on a Navigator's Log Sheet.

Newspaper Page showing Sharkey swing dancing! (like something straight out of a movie).

Other letters to and from Sharkey, plus more photos of Sharkey, including his official ID portrait photo.

Photo Album with many photos of Sharkey in uniform, plus a great photo of Sharkey's Mother receiving an Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross from USAAF Major/Lt. Colonel.