Navy Corpsman- Japanese Navy Pilot Flight Suit & Photo

[MattStone]

Hi again,

 

This is more stuff i have aqquired from the grouping of Walter W Wolery, A WWII US Navy Corpsman that served In the PTO.

 

There is a Navy flight suit, and inside the pocket was a water-stained flag and the photo.

 

I cannot confirm that the jacket is from the photo. BUT there is a thread holes in the same place where the flag was, that can be sen in the photo.

 

 

Very excited that i have been able to get more items from this man's service. However, I hope i can find more of HIS stuff..

 

 

[JFP54]

Hello Matt,

 

In an earlier post you mentioned that the vet was alive.

Were you able to interview him and find out the story behind the relics?

[muddyboots]

My first job was working a Goodwill donation trailer and a old man had what he said was a Japanese flight suit and it looked just like this one. I wish I would have snagged it now! Very Very Nice! Congratulations.

[MattStone]

Hello Matt,

 

In an earlier post you mentioned that the vet was alive.

Were you able to interview him and find out the story behind the relics?

 

 

I have still been in contact with his daughter. he's in a nursing home after 3 brain surgeries..and she says he does not like talking about this war...I'm just trying to figure out how i can ask more questions..I would really like to meet him. I'm in MN and he is in Ohio.

 

Thoughts? I am trying to not mean any disrespect to his family, or annoy them.

[blitz67]

Probably wrong, but my first thought when I saw the photo was of one of the Japanese pilots they pulled out of the wreckage of his aircraft at Pearl Harbor, just looks very familiar

 

Brad