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Posted: 5/29/2006 12:28:17 PM EDT
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Anybody else collect these besides me? http://pic14.picturetrail.com/VOL524/636041/1021439/32219910.jpg http://pic14.picturetrail.com/VOL524/636041/1968861/120841562.jpg !943 Ithaca carried by a glider pilot in WWII, his 1943 Sears holster. graduation pix from glider school and his headstone. |
Otherwise I can't afford them or I'd have several.....
but a few years before
| I have an Ithica, looks exactly like yours, from WWII... it was a returned pistol from China, back after Reagan had authorized a bunch of returned firearms from overseas. It's my primary house gun now. Shoots everything I put thru it without so much as a hiccup! |
No relation to my family. The rig came from Burkett's widow, Neva. With it I got two 8x10 training photos from Laurinburg, Maxton Army Air Base in Maxto, N.C. along with a set of custom grip panels. The grips have insets of .45 ACP heads stamped EEC 43. The training photos are stamped on the back "Official Photograph, U.S. Army Air Force" with a notation of "training 1944. The pix of Burkett is his graduation picture as a 2nd Lt. from the Glider School in Lubbock, Texas. He re-uped and retired as a Lt. Col. I found a 1st cousin who took the headstone picture for me. |
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