GroundSweeper
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Beautiful and fantastic recovery. Wow. Congrats!
very nice! It's a beauty! Are you Dutch?
Dear fellow hunters,
A friend of me found this 10k golden ring in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It was found a few miles from the landing place where the 101st Airborn division landed on 17 september 1944 because of Operation Market Garden. Can anyone help me identify this ring?
The texts on the ring:
Front: United States Army, Air Force
Side 1: Pilot
Side 2: Freeman field SEA FTC(?) and Prepare for Combat
Here are all the pics I made of the ring:
https://plus.google.com/photos/105837108022563648969/albums/5886105319597543361?authkey=CLPppsfupIu8Lg
I really think you might want to look into the second one on your shortened list. While I could be horribly wrong, I kind of doubt that a fighter pilot (P-38 was a fighter plane) would wear a ring depicting a bomber such as a B-17 or a B-25 (Mitchell). It's an ego thing among pilots.
The fighter-bomber planes on your list of 25 planes are:
P-47
P-38
Typhoon
Mustang I & III (P-51)
The Hawker Typhoons were British planes that could be eliminated from your list as I believe they were only flown by the RAF and not Americans in Operation Market Garden.
The C-47 was a transport plane, and it's probable it was carrying paratroopers during the crash unless they had already jumped.
Anyway, that's an awesome ring and very interesting circumstances. WW2 planes are one of my biggest interests.