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Banca D'Italia 1943 Issue Short Snorter.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Paper Money - World Currency Start Price:140.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Banca D'Italia 1943 Issue Short Snorter.
SOLD
120.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2012 May 15 @ 12:11UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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Italy, 1943, 50 Lire, P-64, Choice VF condition, signed on right side of note by (Staff?) Sergeant Al Smolensky, 375 Bomb Group. No other signatures, still a strong military air force connection to this banknote. Sergeant Smolensky flew in a B-24 Liberator bomber in the 375th Bomber group. The 375th Bomb Group was officially transferred to 14th Air Force in China early in 1943. They began flying brand new B-24D Liberators. The squadron arrived in India and made many trips over the 'Hump' between India and China to obtain gasoline, bombs, spare parts they needed to prepare for and sustain their combat operations. The 375th supported Chinese ground forces; attacked airfields, coal yards, docks, oil refineries and fuel dumps in French Indochina; mined rivers and ports; bombed maintenance shops and docks at Rangoon, Burma; attacked Japanese shipping in the East China Sea, Formosa Straits, South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin. The squadron moved to India in June 1945, ferrying gasoline and supplies from there back into China. The unit sailed for the United States, where it was inactivated on 6 January 1946. Surprisingly historic banknote.