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Auction archive: Lot number 336

GREAT WWII VETERANS GROUP & BOOTY 636 TANK DESTROYER.

Estimate
US$100 - US$150
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 336

GREAT WWII VETERANS GROUP & BOOTY 636 TANK DESTROYER.

Estimate
US$100 - US$150
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

In total comprising over 100 individual items (broken up in sold in the following 9 lots) from the estate of the late Pvt. Wendell C. Kirkpatrick (1922- 2005) twice wounded serving with the 36 division, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Recon). Born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1922, Kirkpatrick entered service in the spring of 1943 and was discharged in October 1945 having served in the European theater and receiving two Purple Hearts. He also participated in the capture of Herman Goering as relayed in Waterloo Courier newspaper clipping dated May 1945. Kirkpatrick returned home, married and had three children and went on to become a master cabinet maker and model maker for Waterloo Wood Bearing company where he retired in 1984. The group will be sold in the following nine different lots as described. This first group consists primarily of Kirkpatrick's US issued items but does include some paper souvenirs and a French flag. This first lot consists of Kirkpatrick's Ike jacket (Cancelli & Desiderio) size 36R, dated December 44 and with Kirkpatrick's serial number inked in back. Jacket includes tank destroyer patch right shoulder, 10th Armor patch left shoulder, rank insignia, brass collar device including tank destroyer. Also, four ribbon bars Purple Heart, Good Conduct, European Theater, and Victory medal ribbon bar. As well as combat service and overseas stripes on left cuff. Together with one wool enlisted man's shirt, matching pants, khaki tie, leather belt, khaki belt, khaki overseas cap, and wool overseas cap, with transportation corps piping. Group further includes "yard long" graduating class photo Fort Bragg dated January 23, 1943. As well as two interesting scrapbooks including one compiled by Kirkpatrick with over 100 war period photos, including a photo of Kirkpatrick taken in London in June of '45. As well as many field theatre photos and newspaper clippings including the capture of Herman Goering and two short written histories related to this topic. Also, another large and bulging leatherbound scrapbook understood to have been compiled by his parents including 200 pages featuring numerous vintage local newspaper clippings following the progress of the war from beginning to end. Lot further includes a framed group of six WW2 vintage patches including 36th Division, Tank Destroyer (eight wheels), 9th Infantry Division, 10th Armored Division patch, 7th Army training, and a 9th Service Command patch. Further still, the lot contains a framed German Safe Conduct Pass, ten other war period framed paper articles, including November 7th cover of the Lightning News, cover of Yank Magazine dated August 13, 1944, a framed capture paper named to Kirkpatrick for a P-38 and Paratrooper's gravity knife (not included) as well as a German P38 owner's operator's manual. Lot further includes some German cigarette cards, together with a handful of Weimar Republic currency notes including inflationary notes, as well as some US issued military currency and an unofficial 8th Army medal for the Liberation of Rome (planchet only). As well as a gauze color printed French flag (22 inches x 31 inches), two framed color US Army enemy uniforms posters, one for German army uniforms and one for Japanese army uniforms (each 18 inches x 24 inches), as well as a framed collage of Pearl Harbor images, a 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion 50th Anniversary Reunion cap, as well as photocopies of Kirkpatrick's obituary, an article about him building model tanks, and war period clippings including one which discusses his participation in the seizure of Herman Goering. An interesting group of items.

Auction archive: Lot number 336
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2022
Auction house:
Jackson's International Auctioneers and Appraisers
Lincoln Street 2229
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613
United States
info@jacksonsauction.com
+1 (0)319 2772256
+1 (0)319 2771252
Beschreibung:

In total comprising over 100 individual items (broken up in sold in the following 9 lots) from the estate of the late Pvt. Wendell C. Kirkpatrick (1922- 2005) twice wounded serving with the 36 division, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Recon). Born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1922, Kirkpatrick entered service in the spring of 1943 and was discharged in October 1945 having served in the European theater and receiving two Purple Hearts. He also participated in the capture of Herman Goering as relayed in Waterloo Courier newspaper clipping dated May 1945. Kirkpatrick returned home, married and had three children and went on to become a master cabinet maker and model maker for Waterloo Wood Bearing company where he retired in 1984. The group will be sold in the following nine different lots as described. This first group consists primarily of Kirkpatrick's US issued items but does include some paper souvenirs and a French flag. This first lot consists of Kirkpatrick's Ike jacket (Cancelli & Desiderio) size 36R, dated December 44 and with Kirkpatrick's serial number inked in back. Jacket includes tank destroyer patch right shoulder, 10th Armor patch left shoulder, rank insignia, brass collar device including tank destroyer. Also, four ribbon bars Purple Heart, Good Conduct, European Theater, and Victory medal ribbon bar. As well as combat service and overseas stripes on left cuff. Together with one wool enlisted man's shirt, matching pants, khaki tie, leather belt, khaki belt, khaki overseas cap, and wool overseas cap, with transportation corps piping. Group further includes "yard long" graduating class photo Fort Bragg dated January 23, 1943. As well as two interesting scrapbooks including one compiled by Kirkpatrick with over 100 war period photos, including a photo of Kirkpatrick taken in London in June of '45. As well as many field theatre photos and newspaper clippings including the capture of Herman Goering and two short written histories related to this topic. Also, another large and bulging leatherbound scrapbook understood to have been compiled by his parents including 200 pages featuring numerous vintage local newspaper clippings following the progress of the war from beginning to end. Lot further includes a framed group of six WW2 vintage patches including 36th Division, Tank Destroyer (eight wheels), 9th Infantry Division, 10th Armored Division patch, 7th Army training, and a 9th Service Command patch. Further still, the lot contains a framed German Safe Conduct Pass, ten other war period framed paper articles, including November 7th cover of the Lightning News, cover of Yank Magazine dated August 13, 1944, a framed capture paper named to Kirkpatrick for a P-38 and Paratrooper's gravity knife (not included) as well as a German P38 owner's operator's manual. Lot further includes some German cigarette cards, together with a handful of Weimar Republic currency notes including inflationary notes, as well as some US issued military currency and an unofficial 8th Army medal for the Liberation of Rome (planchet only). As well as a gauze color printed French flag (22 inches x 31 inches), two framed color US Army enemy uniforms posters, one for German army uniforms and one for Japanese army uniforms (each 18 inches x 24 inches), as well as a framed collage of Pearl Harbor images, a 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion 50th Anniversary Reunion cap, as well as photocopies of Kirkpatrick's obituary, an article about him building model tanks, and war period clippings including one which discusses his participation in the seizure of Herman Goering. An interesting group of items.

Auction archive: Lot number 336
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2022
Auction house:
Jackson's International Auctioneers and Appraisers
Lincoln Street 2229
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613
United States
info@jacksonsauction.com
+1 (0)319 2772256
+1 (0)319 2771252
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