WW2 Documented CBI Air Medal Named For Sale
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WW2 Documented CBI Air Medal Named:
$350.00
WW2 Documented CBI Air Medal Named in great condition. Medal belonging to Captain Clifford Shirpser USAAF. Medal is still in presentation box. Medal is in great, working condition with engraving still highly visible.Grouping includes:Air Medal Named and EngravedAAF PatchList of Movies/ Credits he worked onOriginal CBI Theater MapCopies of Photos of Captain ShirpserCopy of \"Round Up\" Published on 1943 describing the special camera he devised.
Quote from Round Up:
ASSAM AIR BASE- \"Battle in the Air Over Burma - As Seen Through A Fighter Pilot\'s Gun Sights\" could be the title of a film the War Department will soon have at its disposal.
In a belly tank slung under the sleek body of a P-40 has been installed a 35mm movie camera. When the pilot goes into action he merely presses a button on his dashboard and the entire action is filmed.
\"The camera\'s lenses are sighted on line with the 50-caliber machine guns in the wings,\" said Capt. Clifford M. Shirpser, 36, Los Angeles, a former Hollywood photographer who designed the work.
Shirpser worked on films such as:
1933
She Done Him Wrong
[Assistant Camera]
1933
Duck Soup
[Assistant Camera]
1932
A Farewell to Arms
[Assistant Camera]
1931
The Vice Squad
[Assistant Camera]
1930
The Dawn Patrol
Assistant Camera (uncredited)
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Titles of Distinction
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of USSR
- Dist. Military Pilot USSR
- Dist. Military Navigator USSR
- Dist. Test Pilot USSR
- Dist. Test Navigator USSR
- Distinguished Pilot USSR
- Dist. Navigator USSR
Orders of Distinction
- Order of Lenin
- Order of October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of Suvorov
- Order of Ushakov
- Order of Kutuzov
- Order of Nakhimov
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of Red Banner of Labor
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Star
- Order Service to Motherland
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Order of Honor
- Order of Personal Courage
- Order of Glory
- Order of Labor Glory
- Order of Mother Heroine
- Order of Maternal Glory