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Bronze military bin. Pin in the shape of "U.S.," with two fasteners in the back.
2 patches mounted on a piece of paper with typed text. Framed in black wooden frame, no glass or front protective cover. Top patch is a 20th Pursuit Group squadron patch - round leather patch with wool design, red, yellow and blue shiled with "Victory by Valor" banner underneath. Lower patch is brown leather name tag "T.W. Jackson"
Beneath patches is typed text "20th Pursuit Group (I) GHQ Air…
Military patch with a gold flower emblem sewn on. The patch is from a beige piece of fabric.
Metal and leather holster. Holster is leather and the attachment piece is silver metal. Clasp at the end made of metal for attaching holster. Leather is brown. Interlocking chain that connects the leather holster to the clasp.
Items from Box One, Folder 4 of the Thomas Walter Jackson World War II Collection, circa 1942. Folder contains correspondence and military documents related to Jackson's time stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Includes 19 letters written by Jackson to his wife Helen Jackson, a loose envelope, and five military documents.
Items from Box One, Folder 2 of the Thomas Walter Jackson World War II Collection, circa 1938-1939. Folder contains materials from Thomas Walter Jackson's military service with the United States Army Air Corps and his training at Randolph Field, Texas. Includes two military documents, 33 letters to Jackson’s fiancée Helen Jane Klinger, and two newspaper clippings.
Items from Box One, Folder 5 of the Thomas Walter Jackson World War II Collection, circa 1942-1946. Folder contains 14 letters written to Jackson's wife, Helen Jackson, regarding Jackson's death in an aircraft collision. Includes letters of condolence, military correspondence regarding his personal effects and back pay, and a letter about his posthumous receipt of the Purple Heart.
Items from Box One, Folder 3 of the Thomas Walter Jackson World War II Collection, circa 1939-1940. Folder contains 17 letters written by Jackson to his fiancée, Helen Jane Klinger, during his time stationed at Moffett Field, California.
Photograph of Thomas Walter Jackson (rear cockpit) and an unidentified serviceman seated in the cockpits of a Consolidated Y1PT-11 aircraft, Randolph Field, Texas, circa 1938.Inscription on verso: "Walt Jackson, Randolph Field, Air Force flying school. 1938. San Antonio, Texas."
Photograph of Thomas Walter Jackson standing next to the wing of a Consolidated Y1PT-11 aircraft, Randolph Field, Texas, circa 1938.Inscription on verso: "Walt Jackson, flying school, Randolph Air Force Base. San Antonio, Texas. 1938."