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Named WWII Surgeon Uniform Group
For your consideration, I have listed an original WWII officer uniform grouping belonging to a decorated Surgeon. Captain Arnold Lempka attended Creighton Medical School in Omaha, NE and graduated in 1941. He started an internship at Saint Joseph Hospital that was interrupted by the bombing of Pearl Harbor when Lempka was called to active duty to serve in the Army Medical Corps. CPT Lempka was stationed in Africa and received a Bronze Star Medal for this valor as a field surgeon. Following the war, Lempka entered private practice and eventually became the president of the Nebraska Medical Association. He was a well-known civic leader in the Omaha community and truly a member of "The Greatest Generation". I will tell you how I came about this marvelous uniform grouping. I received a call from an individual who had found all these items in a dumpster. Arnold passed away in 2000. His wife passed away a few years later and t was an auction to liquidate the estate. The individual who contacted me and agreed to sell me the grouping had attended this auction and noticed the dumpster overflowing with items from the Lempka estate. Among piles of medical journals and books, furniture, wall hangings, and clothing items, this gentleman noticed an olive drab canvas garment bag on the top of the heap. When he opened the bag and saw the beautiful WWII items, he had the foresight the take the bag out of the trash and rescue the pieces from the landfill. Sadly, this gentleman also mentioned t being a full duffle bag and a wooden footlocker further down in the pile, but he said it was starting to rain and he did not want to crawl into the dumpster to retrieve the heavy items. Personally, I would have dove head first into that dumpster without a second thought! The canvas garment bag was brittle and falling apart. It could not be saved, but I did keep the baggage tag that reads, "Arnold W. Lempka Capt 0419249, Train No. 2A "C" Group No. RN1013 Reception Station Ft. Leavenworth." The other items in this auction include: Beautifully tailored officers Class A blouse in excellent condition. No size tag, but the measurements are 20.5" from armpit-to-armpit and 24.5" from shoulder to cuff. The blouse has matching US and medical ciphers and Captain Bars. The Capt bars are pin-back and the medical and US ciphers are clutch-back with the early WWII era smooth back clutches. The left sleeve has a 5th Army insignia and the right sleeve have a 6th Corps patch. The left cuff has 6 overseas stripes made from a bevo weave material (Italian made). The breast has a two piece ribbon bar with Lemka's Bronze Star awarded to him in Africa and a European Theater Campaign ribbon with 1 invasion arrowhead and 5 bronze campaign stars (Tunisia, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, North Apennines, and Po Valley). High quality officers visor cap made from fur felt. I have owned countless visor caps in my life and this one ranks as the nicest quality visor I've ever owned. The maker is the famous clothing firm "Brooks Brothers". They are still a high-end clothing store and catalog that features clothing I will never afford. The cap shows light wear from casual use, but no storage wear or abuse. Arnold's name is printed on a card inside the cap (see pic). The size is 7 1/8. Clean Government Issue officer overseas cap with a quarter master tag that is dated 02-21-1944. The size is also 7 1/8 and its condition is excellent. One pair of wool field trousers in excellent condition with Lempka's name written inside the waist (see pic). The tag size reads 34 waist 33 length. One waist belt with brass roller buckle. Four minty 5th Army Patches, and one North Africa theater patch (removed from a uniform), a long bevo strip containing 15 overseas stripes, one snowflake backed medical cipher, and one sterling marked pin-back Capt bar. T is also a mint Wulf-Brown two-piece ribbon bar with ribbons for the Bronze Star Medal ...
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