Lot 2412

Description

India, Officers Club, 3rd Air Depot, WWII, Bar, Mess or Billet Coupon, Annas 0-4-0, no.6897; Officer's Club, Gushkara, chit for two annas; Post Exchange, AAF Station Bombay, Good For One (1) Coca-Cola, two francs, front stamped 'Alfred Slicer/1st Lt., Air Corps'; Calcutta American Officers Mess, WWII, Karnani Estates, four annas; Piardoba Army Air Base, WWII, Officer's Club, chits for four and eight annas. Very fine - extremely fine and all rare. (6)

During WWII the 3rd Air Depot was deployed to Karachi and then to Agra as a support unit to 10th Air Force, USAAF.

Karnani Estates, Calcutta, was a mammoth apartment hotel for U.S. Army officers.

Piardoba Army Air Base was an airfield in India used by the USAAF 462nd Bombardment Group and then the 10th Air Force, 33rd Fighter Group.