Summer Premier Auction 2015
Fri, May 8, 2015 08:00PM EDT - Sun, Aug 23, 2015 11:30AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 950
COLLECTION OF 25 WORLD WAR II MILITARY AUTOGRAPHS ON VARIOUS ITEMS INC. (5) 0F JIMMY DOOLITTLE
Sold for
$216
Sold Price includes BP
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- US Air Force envelope signed by Chuck Yeager(P-51 fighter pilot in WW II and later became famous test pilot) Curtis LeMay(planned and executed massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and crippling mine laying campaign in Japan's internal waterways) Pappy Boyington(United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II) Paul Tibbets(pilot of Enola Gay plane that dropped 1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima) and Jimmy Doolittle(leader of raid on Tokyo in 1942).
- July 4 1975 200th Anniversary of the US Military Services First Day Cover signed by Curtis LeMay Pappy Boyington J. Lawton Collins Paul Tibbets Chuck Yeager Jimmy Doolittle James A. Van Fleet(commanded the 8th Infantry Regiment for three years and led it into combat in Europe in World War II participating in the D-Day landings on Utah Beach in June 1944) and one other unidentified due to handwriting.
- Air Force recruiting pamphlet signed by Chuck Yeager Jimmy Doolittle Paul Tibbets Curtis LeMay and Pappy Boyington.
- Photo copy of 25 July 1945 orders for the dropping of the first "special bomb" signed by Paul Tibbetts.
- TSL from Curtis LeMay to a reservist with the strong opinion of his thoughts concerning the use of "limited war" in dealing with the communists.
- Anthony Casamento Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism on Guadalcanal in 1942 signed (at a later date) 7/4/1942 Win The War Stamp FDC.
- Jacob Beser(the radar specialist aboard the Enola Gay) signed business card.
- 2 1/2" by 4 1/2" piece of military cloth with US Air Force insignia signed by Jimmy Doolittle.
- J. Lawton Collins(Army general who served in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations during WW II) signed 3 1/4" by 4 1/4" piece of paper.
- Also included is a pamphlet for the Douglas MacArthur Memorial signed by his wife.
- Overall condition of signatures 9/10.
Pre-certified by PSA/DNA.
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