Luftwaffe relics US vet bringback
These items were given to me by a local veteran Gordan R. He was in the US army air corp during the war and served in a piper cub messenger unit. He was a young mechanic trained at Willow Run Michigan. The tropical tunic, hats, and medals were taken by him on the last day of the war. His unit dragged a set of .50 calibres around during the entire war wo ever firing them. On the last day a Fiesler Storch flew over and they hit him with several slugs in the motor. The german plane went down on its wheels and Mr. Gordan and his friends captured the pilot and the a passenger. Mr. Gordan took the pilots suitcase and in it was this tropical tunic, both hats, and the medals. I will post other relics of Mr. Gordan later that he took from what he described as a Luftwaffe storage center. This is another interesting story.
