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World War II Autographs: life-time collection of signed photos…
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Melbourne
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3-Jun-2009
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World War II Autographs: life-time collection of signed photos & letters, in album with notes, comprising (in alphabetical order): - Group Captain Max Aitken (2); Lt- Col.C.G.W.Anderson Vc (2); Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck (2); Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader (4); Wing Commander Roland Beamont (6); Air Commodore H.A.C.Bird-Wilson (4); Wing Commander Bob Braham (2); Group Captain Clive Caldwell (2); Group Captain Frank Carey (2); Flt-Lt.Keith Chisholm; John Cruickshank Vc; Group Captain John Cunningham (3); Sir Roden Cutler Vc; Air Commodore Alan Deere (2); General James Doolittle; Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding; Air Commodore Sir Hughie Edwards Vc (2); Dwight Eisenhower & Omar Bradley; Air Chief Marshall Sir Basil Embry; Paddy Finucane; Ian Fraser Vc; Leon Goldsworthy Gc; Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart; Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson (3); Commander John Kerans; Commodore Otto Kretschmer (Germany's most successful U-boat commander); Squadron Leader James Lacey; Donald Macintyre Vc (2); Air Vice Marshal F.D.S. Scott-Malden (2); 'Memphis Belle' photograph with 10 signatures (plus 5 letters from crew members); Werner Molders (German fi ghter ace); Montgomery of Alamien; Mountbatten of Burma (2); Air Marshall Sir Hector McGregor (2); Air Commodore Charles Pearce & Bill Garing; Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park (2); Squadron Leader Michael Pedley (2); Group Captain Norman Ryder (4); General Carl Spaatz Usaf; Captain Richard Stannard Vc; Colonel David Stirling (2); Wing Commander Robert Stanford-Tuck (2); Captain Charles Upham Vc; General William Westmoreland (2). Mainly collected in the 1960s, a wonderful collection. (78 items)
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