WWII Period

ARTIFACT: Beautiful signed First Edition of PC Patrol Craft of World War II: A History of the Ships and Their Crews by Wm. J. Veigle, Ph.D., USNR (Ret). This hard cover example is in excellent...

ARTIFACT: WWII United States Navy VPB-73 Squadron history written in 1995: Cats Over the Atlantic by WWII VPB-73 pilot, Robert L. Carlisle with a foreword by VADM Charles S, Minter, Jr., USN (Ret.)...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1946 United States Navy "The Log" yearbook for the 43rd Construction Battalion ("Seabees"). This hardcover book offers a history on the Battalion, as well as several black and...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII Vintage United States Navy Submariner 5 x 7 framed portrait photo. The portrait shows an unknown WWII USN Motorman 3rd Class of the submarine service in his Navy whites with an...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1945 published history of the USS Sangamon CVE-26, originally an Esso (Standard Oil Company) tanker. Launched November 4, 1939 as Esso Trenton, the oiler was converted into an...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1944 copy of NAVAER OO 80V-29 United States Navy "So You Are Going to the South Pacific?". This booklet was compiled for naval aviator being transferred to advanced South Pacific...

ARTIFACT: 1944 Wartime United States Navy Chaplain story God on a Battlewagon by Captain James V. Claypool Chaplain Corps, USNR. The front page of the hardcover book is inscribed by the author to a...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare World War II trainee photograph of the Civilian Pilot Training Instruction from the United States Navy V-5 aviation cadet program. The program was an immediate immersion in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II United States Navy Manual NavPers 16110: "Booby Traps". The book is IDed to a Seabee, Ralph H. Norton of the Seabee Maintenance Unit, Camp Parks, California...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful framed World War II promotional PT (patrol torpedo) boat print from the Electric Boat Company (Elco). Begun in 1892, Elco manufactured several types of boats, including...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified ca 1963 "bailout" pin made in Britain. The pin is triangular in a beautiful red enamel basketweave pattern and shows a parachute at center under the letters MBA...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely Rare 1930's Breton National Party - Nazi Germany Axis / Sympathy Badge in Silver, marked by the maker, FEGUY, on reverse. The pin's design (except for the swastika)...