Lot 1109
American Military Commanders in Europe, Five pages containing autographs in various forms of Air Force 5-Star General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, who learned to fly from the Wright brothers (also includes a cover signed by Orville Wright on the 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first flight); Army 5-Star General George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; General Courtney Hodges, whose 1st Army freed Luxembourg and Belgium and captured Aachen, the first German city to fall; General W.H. Simpson, who led the 9th Army to the outskirts of Berlin, where he waited for the red Army advancing from the east; Air Force General Ira C. Eaker, who succeeded Britains Tedder as chief of the Mediterranean air command; General Joseph T. McNarney, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean and later succeeded Eisenhower as commander of American forces in Europe; General Matthew G. Ridgeway, commander of the 82nd Airborne; Army Chief of Staff after the war; General Jacob L. Devers, whose 6th Army accepted the surrender of German troops in eastern Austria and captured Hitler's stronghold at Berchtesgaden.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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| Realized $850 |
