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WWII Parachute Bresl Company Newspaper 1943 Breslee Bee Vol 1 #1 NY Web Gear Lot
$ 7.91
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WWII Parachute Breslee Company Newspaper 1943 Breslee Bee Vol 1 #1 NY Web Gear.This is an original not a reprint or reproduction.
Vintage factory newspaper ”The Breslee Bee”
Jun 3 1942
Vol 1 # 1
9” x 12” 4 pages
Breslee Mfg. Company New York , N.Y.
Manufacturer of parachutes, pouches, shovel covers, bags, survival and assault vests, aviator clothing, life rafts.
This is a company newspaper, looks like the first one in a series.
Many articles and Black and white photos.
Pen marked on cover in script: To PFC Vincent Fittipaldi, U.S.M.C.
On the back cover is a photo of a woman with penned arrows pointing at her sewing parachute”Marie Fittipaldi”
So they are related and this was sent to the Marine overseas.
From reading : “19
th
Street plant Para “shoots” the Works” “Canvas and webbing plant 26
th
street”
Some how it came back and survived the last 80+ years.
Condition well used tattered taped but complete and legible.
As a bonus, I’m including 3 more issues for FREE. Feb 1944, Dec 1943,and yet another without the cover page, all of them in fair condition, ripped, torn, worn out but legible
American seller. Shipped usps from NY.