Item: ON3354

Original U.S. WWI Army Air Service Pilot Named Grouping

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  • Original Items: One-of-a-kind grouping. This grouping was the belongings of WWI pilot JAMES L HALES, serial number 2438621. Hales enlisted on December 14th, 1917 and was from Philadelphia, PA.


    This wonderful grouping consist of the following:


    • Leather flight helmet with bulls eye top.
    • Pilot’s flying Log Book with entries from 1918-1931.
    • 2 x Scrapbooks with hundreds of news clippings, letters, photos, drawings (and more) of American and European wartime service as well as some post war memories.
    • Over 30 personal correspondence items in letters to and from his family and friends.
    • Inflatable life preserver.
    • Photos


    Turning the pages of the excellent laid out and preserved scrap books is like taking a journey back in time. This is a wonderful grouping of a pilot that survived the European theatre during the Great War. Collections like these don’t come along often.



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