United States. WWII Army Air Force Group - Air Medal Recipient

Air Medal (bronze, 42 mm, ribbon with brooch pinback, accompanied by its 10.5 mm x 35 mm ribbon bar and 3.5 mm x 17.3 mm enamelled ribbon bar, in its hardshelled case of issue, black cloth finish with "AIR MEDAL" on the lid, better than very fine). Accompanied by a Three-Ribbon Ribbon Bar (Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Army Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze stars, 11 mm x 104 mm, pinback), an Air Force Aerial Gunner Badge (two-piece construction, sterling silver, marked "STERLING" on the reverse, 23.5 mm x 76.8 mm, pinback, dark patina), a 9th Army Air Force Shoulder Patch (three-colour embroidery on blue wool, 63 mm x 70 mm), a photograph of the Veteran in Uniform (colourized black and white, 179 mm x 236 mm) and nine pages from a photo album (containing eighty-nine black and white photographs taken in the North Western European and Mediterranean theatres, illustrating soldiers, wartime women, refugees, dead bodies, aircraft (intact and crashed), aerial views, bombed out cities, Napoleon's Tomb and the Memorial to WWI Soldiers in Paris, English double decker buses and signage (USAF Leave Hotel, 598th Bomb Sqdn, Salle Des Fete, Direction Sign: Torgeren 16 Brussel 99, including Kwitchen Bitchin on the nose of one plane). Better than very fine.