Original Items: Only One Set of 3 Available. This is a beautiful set of items all sent home by Sergeant Clyde L. Potter (ASN:6897464) of the US Army Air Corps, who enlisted on December 29, 1941, nearly 3 weeks after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

We have not been able to locate a service record for Sgt. Potter, but according to his send home certificate, it would appear that he served with the 82nd Service Squadron, 29th Service Group (Air).

The 29th was created, activated, organized and trained to provide vital services to Army Air Force units and their component support units under any and all conditions.

This it did, despite the lack of proper equipment, supplies and parts necessary to perform assigned and necessary duties encountered in the jungles of South Pacific Islands. The dedication, loyalty and perseverance of all personnel, through their ability to improvise when certain tools, parts and supplies were not available, made the 29th become recognized as one of the best service units functioning in the theater.

The following items were sent home in 1943:

- Type 90 75mm Field Gun Shell Casing: 7 ½” in length with a 3 ½” base, no explosive content and inert/spent primer. There is no significant damage and all arsenal markings are present on the bottom. The Type 90 75 mm field gun was a field gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Soviet-Japanese Border Wars and World War II. The Type 90 designation was given to this gun as it was accepted in the year 2590 of the Japanese calendar (1930). It was intended to replace the Type 38 75 mm field gun in frontline combat units, but due to operational and budgetary constraints, the Type 38 continued to be used.

- X5 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka Type 38 Ammunition on Stripper Clip: All primers are struck/removed and inert. The 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka is a semi-rimmed rifle cartridge with a 6.5 mm (.264 in) diameter bullet. It was the standard Japanese military cartridge from 1897 until the late 1930s for service rifles and machine guns when it was gradually replaced by the 7.7×58mm Arisaka.

- X3 6.5x50mmSR and 1 7.7x58mm Arisaka Ammunition on Stripper Clip: All primers are struck/removed and inert. The 7.7×58mm Arisaka cartridge was the standard military cartridge for the Imperial Japanese Army's and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during World War II. The 7.7×58mm cartridge was designed as the successor of the 6.5×50mmSR cartridge for rifles and machine guns but was never able to fully replace it by the end of the war.

All items are in lovely condition and come with the original “customs declaration” from Sgt. Potter’s unit during WWII. The certificate is in good condition and still able to be fully read.

Comes more than ready for further research and display!