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This is for a Assorted Lot of United States Military Documents, Pamplets, Magazines, ESSO WWII War Map, booklets etc.. They are in fair to good pre-owned collectible condition. Some of the WWII War Ration Booklets have no stamps, others have some stamps in the booklets.
1. U.S. Battleship Kentucky BB6 1900-1924, Two Photographs. Presko Binocular Co. Chicago, ILL..
2. 9 assorted WWII War Ration Book. Not complete. Some are missing stamps. Wear with some tears and stains.
3. CBIVA, Sound-Off Veterans Assn. Magazine 1999.
4. WWII ESSO War Map II, featuring the World Island, Fortress Europe.
5. 1966 Marine Corps Retirement Guide, MCO P1760.5A, 101 pages.
6. Infantry Bugler Magazine, 2000, Vol. VI No. 3. The Korean War Remembered.
7. Two U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C., Memorial Stone Dedication Honoring The Ranger Infantry Companies (Airborne) of the Korean War, 28 Sept. 1993, JFK Plaza.
8. Airborne Ranger Inf. Co., 4th National Reunion Ranger Infantry Companies (Airborne) Dallas Marriott Quorum Dallas, Texas 21-25 June 1989. Korean War.
9. Airborne Ranger Inf. Co., 5th National Reunion Ranger Infantry Companied (Airborne) \"Coming Home\", Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, N.C., August \'91.
USS Kentucky (Battleship # 6, BB-6), 1900-1924
USSKentucky, a 11,520-tonKearsargeclass battleship, was built at Newport News, Virginia, and commissioned in May 1900. Her first active service was on the Asiatic Station between October 1900 and May 1904, transiting between the United States and the Far East via the Suez Canal at both ends of that deployment.Kentuckyoperated along the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean area from 1905 to late 1907. She then participated in the \"Great White Fleet\" cruise around the World, visiting South America, the U.S. west coast, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Ceylon and the Mediterranean before returning to Hampton Roads, Virginia, in February 1909.
Kentuckywas out of commission between August 1909 and June 1912, during which time she was modernized, receiving two of the new \"cage\" masts. She was again inactive in 1913-15, then operated in the western Atlantic and Caribbean areas until the U.S. entered the First World War. During that conflict,Kentuckyserved as a training ship in the Chesapeake Bay and along the Atlantic coast. With the return of peace, she briefly remained in service, making a Naval Academy Midshipmen\'s cruise to Panama in mid-1919. USSKentuckydecommissioned in May 1920 and was sold for scrapping in January 1924.