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Original Vintage 1970's POW Bracelet Nickel Silver LT COL W N NEWK GRUBB 1966
$ 18.45
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Description
NEW OLD STOCK IN WRAPPER,ORIGINAL, VIETNAM PERIOD P.O.W. M.I.A. BRACELET PRODUCED IN NICKEL SILVER AND SO MARKED INSIDE BAND.WRAPPER IS FADED/ DIRTY FROM LONG TERM STORAGE!
BRACELET BODY IS IMPRESSED "LT COL = W.N. "NEWK" GRUBB, JAN 26 1966" IN ORIGINAL, SEALED PLASTIC BAG WITH INFORMATIONAL LEAFLET. DISTRIBUTED BY THE ORGANIZATION - "CONCERN FOR POWs" FROM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
BRACELETS WERE PRODUCED BETWEEN 1970-1976!
Wilmer Newlin Grubb
On January 26, 1966,THEN Captain Newk Grubb was the pilot of an RF101C Voodoo reconnaissance aircraft sent on an unarmed photo reconnaissance mission over Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. The flight occurred during a Christmas bombing halt. As Grubb's aircraft was about twenty miles southwest of the city of Quang Khe, it experienced difficulty in gaining altitude and crashed into a hillside.T
he next day the communist New China News Agency began publicizing the capture of Newk Grubb, followed closely by the Hanoi propaganda machine.