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*The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | |
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Corporal T-5 Kenneth J Moore *Signature Value : £20 | Joining the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in 1942, he trained as a medic and jumped into Normandy with the 501st in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944. Together with 101st medic Robert E. Wright he found himself embroiled in the fighting around the hamlet of Angoville-au-Plain behind Utah Beach and the two medics immediately set up the field dressing station in the ancient church. After Angoville was secured he advanced with the 101st into Carentan and through Normandy, jumping on Operation Market Garden in September 1944, before seeing action again at the bitter siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. By the end of hostilities he had received the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. |
Private 1st Class Arthur Art Petersen *Signature Value : £40 | Serving with Fox Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne he was one of many paratroopers misdropped on D-Day. Landing near Sainte Mère-Église he briefly fought alongside Easy Company before heading south into the bitter fire-fight raging around the church at Angoville-au-Plain. After being wounded he was briefly treated in the Church and then fought in the advance into Carentan. He later jumped on Operation Market Garden, where he was wounded, but was back in action in time to re-join his unit in the Battle of the Bulge. Wounded yet again, Bastogne proved to be his final combat. |
Staff Sergeant Allison Doc Blaney *Signature Value : £10 | Jumping on D-Day with the 326th Airborne Medical Company, 101st Airborne, he landed three miles from his designated Drop Zone. He immediately found himself in the middle of intense fighting and quickly set to work setting up a forward aid station. He served with the 101st throughout the advance into Normandy, jumping on Operation Market Garden and was at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Continuing to serve as a medic he stayed with the 101st all the way to Berchtesgaden at the end of the war. |
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