US WWII Navy USS Thurston & LST 230 Sailor's Grouping
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $165.00

Original era manufacture. This is a very interesting little grouping which documents the service of a US Sailor who saw many of the major assault landings during WWII. The lot includes five of his dogtags, one with the fingerprint reverse and two showing a Tetanus inoculation in 1942. His boxed WWII Victory Medal, boxed American Campaign Medal, miniature three-place medal bar, two theater made cuff or collar linings, a period bw photo of him embracing an attractive Dorothy Lamour-like island girl in a grass skirt, a captured 1943 Luftwaffe pocket calendar and wallet cards for the Order of the Golden Dragon & Neptunus Rex. The Netunus Rex card was issued aboard the USS Thurston (APA-77) in October of 1942 and the Golden Dragon aboard LST-230 in May of 1945. In addition, the inside cover of the Luftwaffe calendar shows his name and rate with the following notations; Normandy D-Day, Anzio D-Day, Salerno D-Day, Sicily D-Day, North Africa D-Day, Okinawa D-Day, Borneo D-Day and Japan Surrender. If you do an internet search for these two vessels you will see that both saw considerable action during the War.