Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 291

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MILITARY--KOREAN WAR.) Kansas City family album showing a son's naval service. 55 photographs laid in to 11 album leaves; album lacking covers, some photos loose or apparently removed, moderate wear to leaves. Vp, 1952-53 and undated
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In this family album, 14 of the photographs plus a clipping document the navy service of Lean Dan Jones of Kansas City in Korea and elsewhere. Jones is seen in the cockpit of a plane, with a Korean woman, and wearing his dog tags on a beach. Some of the photos bear captions such as "Me and Reggie (Dig those big baggy fatigues on me)", "Me and some of the fellows at Chinhae Korea 1953," and "The Snipes of P.C. 1170 at Midway Island 1952."