WWII Letter. 1st Marine Division. Killed in Action 1944. Cape Gloucester. KIA For Sale
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WWII Letter. 1st Marine Division. Killed in Action 1944. Cape Gloucester. KIA :
$17.89
Original and scarce original WWII letter and censored cover, written in 1943 in Australia, after serving in the Guadalcanal battle, by an officer in the 1st Marine Division who was killed in action in January 1944 in the battle for Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
This officer had previously served in the 1942 Guadalcanal campaign. In this letter he discusses being hospitalized for malaria, which he had contracted on Guadalcanal.
*** Please see the listing images for details of this officer\'s service.
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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