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 Sergeant William Bill Galbraith *Signature Value : £20 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 150 prints. Collectors edition of 25 artist proofs. Collectors edition of 185 prints. Tribute edition of 5 prints. Limited edition of 25 remarques. Limited edition of 10 double remarques. | Galbraith, William Bill (Sergeant William Bill Galbraith) A veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
 Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased) Died : 2020 *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : Collectors edition of 25 artist proofs. Collectors edition of 185 prints. Tribute edition of 5 prints. Limited edition of 25 remarques. Limited edition of 10 double remarques. | Wingett, Bill (Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased)) Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in each. Discharged on 23rd November 1945, Bill returned 10 months later to join the 82nd Airborne for 3 years as a maintenance man at Fort Bragg Airfield. He died on 1st October 2020 aged 98. |
 Captain Emmett Rosy Nolan *Signature Value : £20 Editions signed : Collectors edition of 25 artist proofs. Collectors edition of 185 prints. Tribute edition of 5 prints. Limited edition of 25 remarques. Limited edition of 10 double remarques. | Nolan, Emmett Rosy (Captain Emmett Rosy Nolan) HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment |
| Staff Sergeant Paul Martinez *Signature Value : £20 Editions signed : Collectors edition of 25 artist proofs. Collectors edition of 185 prints. Tribute edition of 5 prints. Limited edition of 25 remarques. Limited edition of 10 double remarques. | Martinez, Paul (Staff Sergeant Paul Martinez) Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
| Sergeant Manuel Barrios *Signature Value : £20 Editions signed : Collectors edition of 25 artist proofs. Collectors edition of 185 prints. Tribute edition of 5 prints. Limited edition of 25 remarques. Limited edition of 10 double remarques. | Barrios, Manuel (Sergeant Manuel Barrios) Item Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
| Private James Martin *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : Tribute edition of 5 prints. | Martin, James (Private James Martin) G Company, 101st Airborne |
 Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased) Died : 2017 *Signature Value : £40 Editions signed : Tribute edition of 5 prints. | Tipper, Ed (Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased)) Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous response of everybody I met to do everything they could do to show support for the military. Maybe the support felt exaggerated to me because I had clearly been shot up and wounded. Whenever I ate at a restaurant I went to the cashier and there was almost never a bill. Or the waitress nodded her head and said, 'A gentleman over at that table has paid.' Of course I was home a year ahead of everybody else. But that sort of thing happened to me a lot. He died on 1st February 2017. |
 S/Sgt Earl McClung *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : Tribute edition of 5 prints. | McClung, Earl (S/Sgt Earl McClung) E Company, 101st Airborne. Kaprun, Austria - I thought I had died and gone to heaven there. My job was to hunt and feed the prisoners that the Germans had taken for slave labor who were incarcerated there. The prisoners were freed by then but they had no place to go. I think they were Polish and Romanian mostly. The job fell to us to feed them. I fed them stag and chamois (goats with little hooked horns) until they were coming out of the ears. So I finally got to do some hunting like I enjoyed. I just camped out. [My outfit] saw me maybe once or twice a week. |
 Cpl Forrest Guth *Signature Value : £10 Editions signed : Tribute edition of 5 prints. | Guth, Forrest (Cpl Forrest Guth) Coming down, I had a malfunction of my parachute. It was twisted. The chute had not been properly packed. Or maybe it had been packed in damp conditions. We had not jumped high enough to be able to use the reserve. We had jumped under 500 feet. So my main chute opened but didn't open completely. You try to shake out the twist if you can, but there's so little time. I couldn't do a lot and came down fast. I just hoped for the best. I hit with a thud. I hit on my left hip and back and was knocked out. I don't remember much, just hitting hard and seeing stars. I was paralyzed in leg and back. I couldn't move. Medics came along, gave me a shot of morphine, and put me in a cattle barn. That was the extent of my fighting in Holland. |
 Private Frank Denison (deceased) Died : 2014 *Signature Value : £40 Editions signed : Limited edition of 25 remarques. Limited edition of 10 double remarques. | Denison, Frank (Private Frank Denison (deceased)) Joining up in 1943, Frank Denison was posted to the ETO after training, arriving in England for training in the long months prior to D-Day. Serving with C Company, 326 Parachute (Engineer) Battalion, part of the 101st Airborne he took part in the 6th June D-Day landings in Normandy, and fought his way with the unit through Holland, before swinging into action during the violent fighting around Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. During the crossing of the Rhine, at Hagenaw, he was hit by enemy fire and wounded. He died on 24th November 2014 aged 90. |
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