Original U.S. WWII Named 774th Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group B-17 Pilot Grouping For 1st Lieutenant Ken Dunkel - 70 Items WWII The Naked Spur (1953)

The Naked Spur (1953)

The Germans were largely deployed in strongpoints along the coast—the German strategy was based on defeating any seaborne assault at the water line

A very nice clean 16” M1942 Garand bayonet by Union Fork & Hoe with reissued M1910 scabbard

then departed Newport on 15 May 1951

dropping airborne troops into Wesel

Original U.S. WWII Named 774th Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group B-17 Pilot Grouping For 1st Lieutenant Ken Dunkel - 70 Items WWII The Naked Spur (1953)Original Items: Only One Grouping Available. This is a wonderful and rather large grouping attributed to Lieutenant Kenneth F. Dunkel (ASN: 0 1 695 483), a B 17 pilot with the 774th Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group of the 15th Air Force. Dunkel had completed 50 combat missions in the European Theater of Operations and on September 17, 1944, while awaiting return to the United States, he was struck by a British truck while playing football