An Unidentified Second War Period German Single Claw Open Leather Buckle Hold The crew of ten adopted

The crew of ten adopted two characters to place on the fuselage of the B-24 Liberator: the Walt Disney character José Carioca (parrot) and a caricature of Dorothy Lamour in a bikini

after one year's service and entitled to the QSA with three clasps (Cape Colony

Voting was extended to all males

framed in steel blue embroidery

An Unidentified Second War Period German Single Claw Open Leather Buckle Hold The crew of ten adoptedIn leather wrapped metal, unmarked, measuring 52. 5 mm x 57. 8 mm, worn, fine. Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolias book Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, published in 2001.