I believe that Glider Pilot wing is also a "Navajo" product.  I forgot about that one.

 

Marty

The wing is 3-1/4 inch long.

 

 The feather work is very interesting.

Here is a horrible but best shot I can get of the missing ribbon bar.

 

Possibly Air Medal & Pacific Campaign ?

Very cool wing. $40? Ha, wouldn't that be nice.

On 6/28/2022 at 12:14 AM, jeff41st said:

Very cool wing. $40? Ha, wouldn't that be nice.

They saw me buy the uniform for $80 and jumped on me, hoping I didn’t know what I was doing.

2 hours ago, manayunkman said:

They saw me buy the uniform for $80 and jumped on me, hoping I didn’t know what I was doing.

WOW you got the whole uniform!?  Fantastic, I hope you keep it all together for histories sake.   One of those once in a decade finds, NICE!

1 hour ago, LuftStalg1 said:

WOW you got the whole uniform!?  Fantastic, I hope you keep it all together for histories sake.   One of those once in a decade finds, NICE!

That’s why I got the 2 photos out of the album, I had to convince another buyer who got the album to sell them and in addition the family/estate co. are digging out some other things too. 
 

I will post anything new I find.
 

 

 

Here is his trunk with name and stickers.

 

I did not get it and not sure I will due to room.

 

 

I got the trunk and his ROTC photo.

E.E. Van Sickle is listed as being a member of Kirtland Bombardier School class 45-08.  It is interesting that the native silversmiths were still making these wings so late in the war.

 

Class 45-08 would have graduated in February of 1945.  I have never seen a book for this class.

23 minutes ago, 5thwingmarty said:

E.E. Van Sickle is listed as being a member of Kirtland Bombardier School class 45-08.  It is interesting that the native silversmiths were still making these wings so late in the war.

 

Class 45-08 would have graduated in February of 1945.  I have never seen a book for this class.

Many thanks!!

 

Did he go overseas? 

Here are close ups of the stickers on the trunk.

 

Shipping label with address in Detroit 

 

Trunk made in Detroit.

He must have gone to gunnery school in Kingman.

 

I don't know if he went overseas.  He might have made it to the Pacific Theater but I don't have a database for that info.  The old Bombardiers Inc. organization had gathered orders for many of the graduating classes, and those records were supposedly donated to the Air Force historical library.

 

It is interesting with the recent thread about officers going to gunnery school to see a Kingman Gunnery School sticker on this trunk.

1 hour ago, 5thwingmarty said:

I don't know if he went overseas.  He might have made it to the Pacific Theater but I don't have a database for that info.  The old Bombardiers Inc. organization had gathered orders for many of the graduating classes, and those records were supposedly donated to the Air Force historical library.

 

It is interesting with the recent thread about officers going to gunnery school to see a Kingman Gunnery School sticker on this trunk.

Where’s his gunners wing?!!🤣

The grouping doesn't appear to have had his government issued Bombardier wing either.  Who knows where the rest went in the last 75 years.

The family has taken what they wanted.

Came across a group of wings and badges on eBay  which I’ve taken a punt on due to the low buy it now price. I’m banking on two of the wings being genuine Navajo-made badges but with only the one photo on the listing it’s a bit of a hit and hope purchase.

 

 

 

Based on the photos; it looks like you have a good shot!  Best of luck!

 

Chris

Look forward to better pics. Amazing to see two in one group. Wish the seller had any inkling on where these come from.

Wow, I think you get the prize for bargain of the year with this score.  The listing said they belonged to a Lt. Edgar Rosenwasser.  I checked and he was a Kirtland Bombardier School graduate in 1943, but his specific class number was not listed.  I think most of the Navajo wings were picked up by Kirtland graduates there in Albuquerque.

Thanks all for your positive responses, very excited to receive them now!
 

And thanks for the additional information on Lt. Rosenwasser, Marty. Great that it checks out. I was a little wary as there is an observer wing and a couple of navigator wings in the lot too. Having done a little online research it seems he was posted to the 736th BS, 454th BG in Italy. He features in two crew lists, both listed as navigator. So would a navigator also do a bombing course or did he retrain at some point to become a navigator? I’m not up on how these things worked.

Bombardiers typically received some cross-training in navigation, and later in the war they received even more and became dual-rated.  It is possible he started in Bombardier training and then actually jumped to Navigator training without completing his other training.  I have a reference book that lists most of the Bombardier graduates and their classes, but there is no such book for Navigators.  I do have quire a few Navigator class books but they are not indexed so I don't know if he is in any of them.  You can look through all my San Marcos class books on aafcollection.info and see if you can spot him in one of them.  You can also request a copy of his records using a researcher to see what schools he attended.

Thanks again, Marty. Interesting additional information that adds to Lt. Rosenwasser’s story. Might have a go at looking through those San Marcos if I get some time to do so.

Wow! I think you got the deal of the year. Those are some nice looking wings. Congrats.