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ATC Radio Operator Half Wing - Wright and Street Inc Chicago


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Thank you! Ive read that this Radio Operators ATC wing is one of the rarest ATC you can get?????

I dont know as its my first ATC Wing.

Hallmarked Wright and Street INC Chicago

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That is one sweet wing rooster, I have never seen one. That's one I need to put on the want list! Thanks for sharing

 

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Very nice wing. The ATC stuff is under appreciated in my opinion. Beautiful pieces but they are tough to find.

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The Rooster

Thank you kindly Fellow wing enthusiasts!!.

Im reposting member Mtnman's from 2013 of the very same pattern wing!

Down to the hall mark!Its a rare wing and i

think Wright and Street Inc is a rare vintage maker?

Ive only seen the hallmark but never an actual hall marked piece for sale before.

In my vast almost 1 year of collecting experience!

lol :-)

 

Thank you Mntman for your post.

 

 

 

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Posted 19 March 2013 - 08:11 AM

Here is a wing I picked up not too long ago which brings us into the era after the creation Air Transport Command General order No. 8 by Gen Hap Arnold in June of 1942 which divided the 2 primary tasks which had risen during the time of the Air Corps Ferrying Command. This is insignia from the time of the fine uniform Sabre posted. Air Transport Command was to replace the Ferrying Command and the second primary task was transport of personnel which fell initially to 1 Troop Carrier Command. This is actually a Maker Marked ATC Radio Operator Badge by Wright & Street of Chicago. The design has a beautiful luster and sheen covering the aged bronze variance in shading. This badge reflects more light than the Navigator and Engineer I have and thus really makes salient the the fletching. Enjoy, fellow Wing Men! Hope you guys post some of your own! Blessings to You All....
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The Rooster

Very nice!

 

Please visit my website at http://ww2awartobewon.com/ for information about WWII history, stories, news and militaria :D

 

 

You have a great website!!!

 

Thank you for the link. Lots to read on there!!!

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Rooster,
The only reason I was able to pick up the same wing that you have been blessed with finding, is that one of the finest dealers we are all familiar with, Dave Hoover, was helping one of our community sel loff a couple of groupings of wings that had been accumulated over a lifetime by one of the many collectors who trust in the excellence of his person . You have found a rarely acquired wing from the ATC paradigm, as that was the first wing with that makers Mark I had ever seen and now after so many years of collecting I have seen two , with a high quality design of aesthetic beauty as well. Very well done Rooster and I look forward to seeing your collection grow in this most excellent, exciting area of collecting , rich with tales of our finest young men "straining the limits of machine and man" (as Rush so eloquently put it in "Red Barchetta"). Blessings in your collecting my fellow historian!

Mel -- mtnman

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The Rooster

Thank you kindly Mel.

In fact it was your post that set me frmly into trying to pick this rare wing up. I saw it on ebay one day.

Opening bid was 100.00. And the seller was accepting offers. So I did some searching trying to find info on it.

I found information on Flying tiger Antiques and other sites and I actually found my identical wing on worthpoint

that had sold in 2013. I know its the same wing because of the spot on the fron of the wing.

Then I found your post on the Forum!

So I went back and made 3 offers and they were all shot down... Then I just forgot about it and a week later I happened upon it again at 11PM and it was ending

at 430 AM. And there were zero bids on it! I think most people probably did what I did. In other words they made offers that were rejected and then they moved on and forgot about it.

So I stayed up until 4:30 and bid 110.00 dollars and I got it!!!!

I could not believe it really!

I thought the guy might change his mind and refund my money??? But no he sold it to me and I still cant believe I got it. I mean I have it but you know what I mean?

I put a post in what is it worth to see what folks might say. One member said he saw it sold for a hundred bucks so he did not think it was worth much.

I have a few wings that to me are priceless. Just a few and this Wing is one of them.

Ive found many many repops and like you... Ive only seen 2 Wright and Street made radio operator half wings.

Just yours and mine. I feel blessed to have gotten it.

Thank you Mel !

I must say you word all that very well.

Your words put the meaning into this and all the wings and other items we collect.

Thank you Sir!

 

Dave

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I would say that $110 for that is an exceptionally good price. It's always hard to put a true price on wings and ATC wings aren't as widely collected but that's a rare badge by an even rarer maker so in my book you got a steal. For whatever that's worth. Anyhow, I wouldn't have hesitated to pay that for that wing. It's a beauty.

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Dave, (and all you collectors out there of US military aviation history) .... Your account of the events that lead to your acquisition of this rare and historically significant beauty is the epitome of the TRUE WING COLLECTOR'S ethos. Up at 4:30 AM pursuing the blessing to preserve under your stewardship, one of these tiny monuments to our history i.e. God's will unveiled in the context of time and space. I commend your efforts Dave and you acquired a very fine piece for your efforts. When I volunteered with hospice I was blessed to take care of a radio operator who flew in a B 25 medium bomber against the Japanese in the Pacific and then was transferred to a C 47 where he flew the hump. They were transporting Chinese soldiers back across the Himalayas from a supply line in the China at Kunming and on the way back the pilot and himself suddenly looked at each other sniffing at the air because the cabin and started to fill with's smoke. The pilot told him to put his radio set down and take a look in the rear of the fuselage. Jim got up and walked back to the cargo area where he found the Chinese soldiers sitting around the little campfire they had just made in the rear of the plane because they didn't like 50° below zero temperatures of extreme altitude without pressurized cabins! Needless to say, the fire didn't last.

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The Rooster

Thats a wild one Mel! I could totally see that happening.

These kind of stories are what turned me away from novels when I was a kid.

True stories out of military history... ours and the worlds for that matter are more interesting and wild than any novelist

could come up with. And there is so much of it! And its true. It happened!

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