American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

This is a collage featuring signatures of all of the American five star generals. The collage includes signed and inscribed photographs by Omar Bradley, Henry H. Arnold, and Douglas MacArthur...

WWII Liberation Flag with 48 Hastily Sewn Stars on a Beautiful, Cornflower Blue Canton, Found Behind a Cabinet in a Paris Basement, Made to Welcome U.S...

Framed antique American Folk Art tattoo art eagle wall art. Frame has overall wear, chips and should be re-framed.

Dated 1944, this vintage WWII poster encourages the purchase of War Bonds. The poster depicts a machine gunner in action, fighting in the Pacific theater. His hands clutch a machine gun while a targeted Japanese Zero falls in flames behind him. The poster reads “YOU can’t afford to miss EITHER” at the top of the image, further urging the American populace to “BUY BONDS EVERY PAYDAY” at the bottom of the poster. This poster was an official U.S. Treasury Department poster, illustrated by Martha Sawyers and printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1944. The war ushered in the biggest advertising Campaign to date, critical to the wartime communication needs of every combatant: from raising money, recruiting soldiers and boosting volunteer efforts, to spurring production and provoking outrage at enemy atrocities. The most common themes found in the posters were the consequences of careless talk, anti-German and Japanese propaganda...

Presented is a collage featuring signatures of two of the most influential American military officers during WWII. Included is a card signed by Dwight Eisenhower in 1946 and a letter...

Dated 1944, this vintage WWII poster encourages the purchase of War Bonds. The poster depicts a machine gunner in action, fighting in the Pacific theater. His hands clutch a machine gun while a targeted Japanese Zero falls in flames behind him. The poster reads “YOU can’t afford to miss EITHER” at the top of the image, further urging the American populace to “BUY BONDS EVERY PAYDAY” at the bottom of the poster. This poster was an official U.S. Treasury Department poster, illustrated by Martha Sawyers and printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1944. The war ushered in the biggest advertising Campaign to date, critical to the wartime communication needs of every combatant: from raising money, recruiting soldiers and boosting volunteer efforts, to spurring production and provoking outrage at enemy atrocities. The most common themes found in the posters were the consequences of careless talk, anti-German and Japanese propaganda...

Presented is a World War II-dated typed letter signed by General Marshall to his friend E. M. Jenkins with Christmas greetings and New Years salutations for 1943. The letter is t...

U.S. NAVY FORMATION PENNANT, MADE AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA DURING WWII, SIGNED AND DATED 1943 U.S. Navy formation pennant, made during World War II (U....

WWII VINTAGE ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 48 STARS AND ENDEARING WEAR FROM OBVIOUS LONG-TERM USE, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN MARKED "No....

COMBINATION MARINE CORPS BUGLE, SASH, AND BANNER, WWII ERA (1941-1945), BUGLECRAFT, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK WWII era (U.S. involvement 1941-45) Marine Corp...

Rare WWII Bandanna with "Remember Pearl Harbor" Slogan, 13 Stars, and a Striped Field with Twelve, Iconic, Patriotic Slogans Made in the patriotism of WWII (U.S. involvement 1941-45,) possibly in conjunction with a war bond drive, this terrific and very rare bandanna features a square blue window in the center, where the words "Remember Pearl Harbor" appear within a circular wreath of 13 stars. This is set upon a field of 23, red and white stripes, on which 12 patriotic slogans appear in blue, block letters. The iconic American phrases include: The Price Of Liberty Is Eternal Vigilance [unknown source] Right Makes Might [Abraham Lincoln at the Cooper Union, Philadelphia] Speak Softly But Carry A Big Stick [Teddy Roosevelt's slogan regarding the best approach to foreign policy] Lafayette We Are Here [Charles E. Stanton, WWI officer and nephew of Lincoln's Secretary of War, while standing before the Frenchman's grave in 1917] Don’t Tread On Me [Rev. War slogan from a flag designed by South Carolina politician Christopher Gadsen] Freedom Shall Not Perish From This Earth [Abraham Lincoln during the Gettysburg Address, with slight rewording] Don’t Give Up This Ship [Capt. James Lawrence aboard the U.S.S. Chesapeake during the Rev. War] Make The World Safe For Democracy [Woodrow Wilson before a joint session of Congress in 1917, seeking a Declaration of War against Germany] Do Or Die. Never Surrender [general WWII patriotism] Keep ‘Em Flying [slogan from WWII war bond posters...

48 STAR FLAG & MATCHING COMMISSIONING PENNANT OF THE WWII ERA, SELDOM EVER FOUND IN A MATCHING PAIR, BROUGHT HOME BY U.S. NAVY AMPHIBIOUS FORCES GROUP SAILOR LUTHER VOIGHT LINGLE, WHO SERVED ON THE U.S.S. REEVES, THE FIRST AMERICAN SHIP TO DROP ANCHOR IN JAPANESE WATERS BEFORE THE SURRENDER 48 star, U.S. Navy small boat ensign and an accompanying 7-star commission pennant, handed down through the family of a WWII sailor. Despite having owned many U.S. Navy flags and commissioning pennants dating to the 19th and 20th centuries, I have seldom ever encountered matching pairs from the same ship, intended to be flown together. For that reason alone, these were a wonderful and interesting find. This particular pair was brought home by Luther Voight Lingle (b. Nov. 24, 1922, d. Nov. 2, 2008) of Salisbury, NC, who was a U.S. Navy Amphibious Forces Group Sailor. He and his wife Mabel (Kluttz), of 62 years, had no children. When he passed in 2008, at the age of 85, the flag and pennant were left to his niece, who subsequently sold them to an antiques dealer/picker/collector, relaying that her uncle had served from mid-1944 - 1946 in the Pacific Theatre. A copy of Lingle’s draft card and a copy of a ship’s roster were found when researching his service record. The roster, is from the U.S.S. Reeves (APD52) and reflects the last Quarter of 1944, ending Dec. 31st of that year. It supports the niece’s information, stating that Lingle had enlisted on the 27th of June, 1944. It can be assumed that he entered the Navy boot camp, and probably wasn’t assigned to the Reeves until it was modified and re-designated, a process that began in September. The overhauled ship re-launched on December 23rd of that year. Lingle appears on the ship’s records until June 1st, 1946. What happened to him after this time with regard to his term of U.S. Navy Service is not known. History of the U.S.S. Reeves (DE-156/APD-52): The first U.S.S. Reeves was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, named in honor of Warrant Officer Thomas J. Reeves (1895–1941), who was killed in action while serving aboard the battleship California (BB-44) during the attack on Pearl Harbor. For his distinguished conduct to bring ammunition to anti-aircraft guns, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and further honored with the ship’s name. The Reeves was laid down by the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on the 7th of February, 1943, was launched on the 23rd of April, and sponsored by Miss Mary Anne Reeves, niece of Chief Radioman Reeves. The ship was commissioned on June 9th of that year, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Mathias S. Clark. Following shakedown, Reeves returned to Norfolk and on August 16th and got underway on her first transatlantic escort run, a slow convoy to Casablanca. Arriving at New York 6 weeks later, she underwent availability and further training at Casco Bay, then returned to escort duty and for the next 12 months shepherded fast tanker convoys between New York and the UK. On March 18th, 1944, following the sinking of the S.S. Seakay, Reeves rescued 83 of the merchantman's 84 man crew. For heroism during that rescue, one of the escort's coxswains, E. E. Angus, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. The following day, Reeves took the U.S.S. Donnell (DE-56) in tow, after she had been torpedoed, and stood by until relieved by tugs, then continued on, carrying the damaged escort's more seriously wounded men. Through D-Day and the summer of 1944, Reeves continued to escort fast convoys. On the 23rd of September, she completed her last Atlantic escort mission and entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard for conversion to a Charles Lawrence-class, high speed transport. Redesignated APD-52 on 25 September, the U.S.S. Reeves emerged from the shipyard on December 23rd and after amphibious training, headed for the Panama Canal and duty in the Pacific. Arriving at Ulithi on February 26th, 1945, she continued on to the Philippines in early March to rehearse for Operation Iceberg, the invasion of the Ryukyus. On March 26th, the ship arrived off the Kerama Retto invasion area, and following initial duties as a standby ship for Underwater Demolition Team operations, shifted to anti-submarine and anti-aircraft screening duties. She served on that harrowing duty for 109 days, interrupted only for a fast convoy to Ulithi and a brief availability in the Philippines. Detached on August 18th, the APD delivered men, mail, and provisions to ships of the fleet, then sailed north to Japan. There, into October, she assisted in the repatriation of former POWs, including Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, (b. 1912, d. 1988), the famous Marine Corps fighter ace who flew a P-40 Warhawk with the legendary "Flying Tigers," then supported the United States Strategic Bombing Survey mission assigned to the Nagasaki area. The U.S.S. Reeves was the first American Ship to drop anchor in Japanese waters before the surrender. The ship sailed for the United States on November 26th and, after stops in the Volcano, Marshall, and Hawaiian islands, arrived at San Diego on December 23rd. Three days later she continued on and arrived at Boston to begin inactivation on the 10th of January, 1946. Assigned to the Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, she was decommissioned on July 30th of that year at Green Cove Springs, FL, where she remained until struck from the Navy List on June 1st, 1960 and transferred to the Government of Ecuador for use as an electric generator plant. The Reeves earned one battle star during the war. Information on Luther Voight Lingle (1922-2008): Born Nov. 24, 1922, in Rowan County, he was the son of the late Julian Ralph Lingle and Ethel Safrit Lingle. Mr. Lingle graduated from Mount Ulla High School and served in the United States Navy during World War II. He retired as a superintendent from Wagoner Construction Company and was a member of Franklin Presbyterian Church, where he was a former Elder Emeritus. When he passesd, Mr. Lingle was survived by his wife of 62 years, Mabel Kluttz Lingle, and two sisters, Mrs. Ailene Safrit of Salisbury and Mrs. Faye O'Bryant of Florida. Parents: Julian Ralph Lingle (1900 - 1997) and Ethel Irene Safrit Lingle (1900 - 1945) Spouse: Mabel Kluttz Lingle (1919 - 2013) Siblings: Luther Voight Lingle (1922 - 2008), Julian Locke Lingle (1928 - 2000), Ailene Safrit, Faye O'Bryant Burial: Franklin Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Franklin, North Carolina (Rowan County) Headstone Inscription: S1 US NAVY WWII...