tigerfan Posted March 5, 2012 Share #1 Posted March 5, 2012 At a local auction this past weekend was a small box lot including a bancroft flighter crusher, a standard officers visor hat (not pictured), officers overseas hat, AAF thin leather flight gloves and a nice pair of British leather flight gloves. The crusher and overseas hat are both id'd. I got the lot for a good price and after very brief research found that this veteran lived not far from me and was with the 436th fighter squadron, 479th fighter group - 8th AAF. Not a huge group but I don't find many crushers id'd to fighter pilots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2012 Share #2 Posted March 5, 2012 Terrific little grouping. The RAF gauntlets are very collectible in their own right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskjl Posted March 5, 2012 Share #3 Posted March 5, 2012 Nice group and that crusher is a really something. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobrahistorian Posted March 5, 2012 Share #4 Posted March 5, 2012 Outstanding grouping! Here's a shot of his squadron in front of one of their airplanes. He's in the rear row, center, wearing the baseball cap: http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gallery.php...ble&Item=83 His assigned P-51D was 44-15742 and was coded 9B-N and was named "Bruiser". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDK Posted March 6, 2012 Share #5 Posted March 6, 2012 Cool little set of items there! JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted March 6, 2012 Share #6 Posted March 6, 2012 I'll say! Great grouping and a sweet hat!! -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 6, 2012 Share #7 Posted March 6, 2012 Agreed,very nice items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted March 6, 2012 Share #8 Posted March 6, 2012 Very nice group that screams HISTORY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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