Original U.S. WWII AAF Prisoner of War Grouping with Western Union Telegrams, Unpublished Memoir, Caterpillar Club Card, and Great Ephemera - Staff Sergeant James I. Quillin MILITARIA and most Ki-21-1a

and most Ki-21-1a

as it was called

Ward and the consulate staff were imprisoned and held under house arrest by Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army for almost a year

This is bordered by two rows of goldgelb (Gold-Yellow) color piping around the circumference

which are repeated on the hanger bolsters

Original U.S. WWII AAF Prisoner of War Grouping with Western Union Telegrams, Unpublished Memoir, Caterpillar Club Card, and Great Ephemera - Staff Sergeant James I. Quillin MILITARIA and most Ki-21-1aOriginal Items. One of a Kind Group. This is the outstanding ephemera grouping of Prisoner of War Staff Sergeant James Irving Quillin, 508th Bombardment Group, 351st Bombardment Group, whose B 17 Flying Fortress was shot down on October 9th, 1943. Quillin was taken as a German Prisoner of War, and spent very long in captivity at Stalag Luft 3. The grouping includes several Western Union telegrams and letters alerting his family of his capture and