WW2 US 82nd - 507th PIR - Airborne - D-Day - Named Grouping

Here we have for sale for the first time on the open market 507th PIR named grouping. 

Pvt John "Sparky" Jarosik

Asn:33153799

1/507 PIR - 82nd Airborne

He was 7th out the plane when he dropped in Normandy on D-Day morning at 2:44am landing on drop zone T. It is recorded that was SWA on 7th June but i suspect these are wounds that were sustained on D-Day.

So, why has the grouping got 2 x 506th PIR DUI's... In one photograph taken in what looks like Austria, he is stood next too a 101st AB Officer. If you look closely at Jarosik in the picture his 82nd uniform has what looks like those 506th DUI's fitted... Who knows why, I suspect something to do with his boxing.

The grouping consists of 15 original wartime military photographs, 8 pre war or post war photographs of the vet. A pre war athletic union membership record. He was an amateur heavy weight boxer, looking at the pictures he was a BIG guy.

The sad end to the story is that is was murdered on 29th April 1955 by his estranged land lady who shot him at close range in the forehead.

This grouping was purchased directly from a family member on the Cherpak side of the family.

This grouping is from my own personal collection.