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December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/18/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #943: Aviation First Day Cover Signed by Six Legends of WWII Aviation -- Including ''Flying Aces'' Chuck Yeager & Tex Hill

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #944: WWII Iwo Jima Commemorative Cover Signed by Survivor John H. Bradley

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #945: General Omar Bradley Signed 8'' x 10'' Glossy Army Photo -- 1957 -- ''To Kayo Roy / With best wishes / Omar Bradley'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #946: Haunting, Inscribed Photos From the Liberation of Buchenwald, the Largest German Concentration Camp -- ''These Poles, Jews, Russians, etc. Were Shot in the Camp Streets to Prevent Their...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #947: General Mark W. Clark 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo -- ''To: Jack K Calagari / With best wishes / Mark W. Clark'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #948: General Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed Upon Citadel Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #949: WWII General Mark Clark Typed Letter Signed -- Along With Shoulder Patch

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #950: General Lucius D. Clay Typed Letter Signed as Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces in Europe -- 1947

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #951: James Doolittle & His Doolittle Raiders Signed Document -- Signed in an 1986 Air Force Association ''Gathering of Eagles'' Commemorative Booklet

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #952: Enola Gay Crew Members Signed Cover -- Paul Tibbets, Dutch Van Kirk, Tom Ferebee, Jacob Beser & Dick Nelson -- ''From Sea to Shining Sea'' FDC Postmarked 1981 -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #953: Enola Gay Signed Photo -- Black & White Photo of Eleven Members of the 509th -- Six Crew Members Autographed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #954: True First Edition, First Printing of ''The Diary of Anne Frank''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #955: Lot of 36 Autograph WWII-Dated Letters Signed From Iwo Jima Hero Rene Gagnon -- ''...in my hands I hold two means of killing a person; Either stabbing him with the bayonet or shooting him with my...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #956: Rene Gagnon Lot of 39 WWII-Dated Autograph Letters Signed -- He Writes of Going AWOL, ''...I must admit I've been giving a lot of thought to going over the hill...'' & Racial Injustice, ''...they...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #957: Lot of 47 Rene Gagnon WWII Autograph Letters Signed -- Remarkably, Gagnon Almost Quit the Marines: ''...doctor said...I...could get medical discharge...I'm for it...'' But Then, ''...If I just quit...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #958: Lot of 42 Rene Gagnon Autograph Letters Signed & V-Mails While Fighting in the South Pacific -- ''...we were in action on Iwo Jima, you've probably read about it in the papers, as it was a pretty...

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #959: Rene Gagnon's Personally Owned Marines-Issued Knife -- Likely Used at Iwo Jima -- From Rene Gagnon's Estate

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #960: David Lloyd George Signed 4'' x 5.75'' Matte Photo -- ''D Lloyd George'' -- Russell Sons Photographers -- Minor Creasing to 6'' x 8.75'' Mat Not Affecting Clear Signature -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #961: Adolf Hitler Signed Copies of His ''Mein Kampf'' -- Both Volumes Including a 1st Edition of Volume II, Signed by Hitler in 1925, Inscribed to Future SS Leader Josef Bauer

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #962: Early Edition of Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,066

• Lot #963: Adolf Hitler 1909 Vienna Signed Rare Handwritten Police Document Changing His Address to an Apartment Just 4 Months Before He Would Become a Homeless & Angry 20 Year Old & Soon Anti-Semite

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #964: WWII General Courtney Hodges Letter Signed -- May 1945 Just After Battle of the Bulge -- With First Army Shoulder Patch Given by Hodges to Letter's Recipient

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #965: 14 Page Eyewitness Account of the Japanese Surrender -- ''...this beaten, little Jap general signing everything that was placed before him...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #966: WWII General Curtis E. LeMay Signed First Edition of His Memoir ''Mission With LeMay''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #967: Douglas MacArthur Signs ''MacArthur: His Rendezvous With History''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #968: Early General Douglas MacArthur Signed 11'' x 14'' Photo

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #969: Montgomery of Alamein Signed ''Forward To Victory'' -- ''We have plenty of tanks...we will smash the enemy attack...we will...give him a very 'bloody nose'...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #970: Bernard Montgomery Document Signed With Hand Annotations: ''...No harm is intended against the mass of the German people...'' -- Issuing Perhaps His First Message as Commander of Occupied Germany

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #971: Bernard Montgomery Signed Document Pertaining to Normandy -- ''...push forward fairly powerful armored-force thrusts on the afternoon of D-Day...to cause alarm in the minds of the enemy...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #972: Official WWII-Dated 1942 Nazi Party Rally Ticket

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #973: Nazi WWII Letter From SS Commander -- Danish Letter Mentions Hitler, Churchill & Stalin

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #974: Seven Nazi-Era German Opera Programs From Various Theaters in Berlin and Munich -- With One 1944 WWII-Dated Program

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #975: Nazi Soldier's Personal World War II Photo Album -- Includes Pictures of Captured Polish Troops, French POWs, Destroyed French Tanks, Crashed Soviet Planes & Destroyed Towns

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $385

• Lot #976: ''The New York Times'' From 1 September 1939 -- ''Millions Evacuating London'' -- First Day of World War II!

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #977: ''The New York Times'' From 2 September 1939 -- ''Germans Attack Poles on 4 Fronts'' -- First Reporting on WWII With Photographs

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #978: 3 September 1939 of ''The New York Times'' -- ''Russia Reported Threatening War'' -- The Day Britain and France Declare War

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #979: 4 September 1939 of ''The New York Times'' -- ''Roosevelt Asks Nation to Observe True Neutrality'' -- The Day After Britain and France's Declaration of War & Famous Speech by King George VI

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

• Lot #980: ''The New York Times'' 5 September 1939 Marks The Beginning of World War II -- ''100 Believed Killed on Athenia''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #981: ''The New York Times'' From 6 September 1939 -- ''Germans Shell Warsaw'' & ''War Stocks Boom''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #982: ''The New York Times'' From 7 September 1939 -- ''French Invade Reich''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #983: ''The New York Times'' From 1 April 1945 -- ''Allies Sweep On In Reich As Rout Grows''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #984: ''The New York Times'' From 6 April 1945 -- MacArthur & Nimitz Appointed Supreme Commanders in Pacific

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #985: U.S. Prepares to Pay Last Respects to FDR in ''The New York Times'' From 14 April 1945 -- ''...the world...joined with...Americans to mourn the death of Mr. Roosevelt...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #986: WWII Newspaper -- 21 April 1945 -- ''New York Herald Tribune'' Reports Nuremberg's Fall

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #987: WWII Newspaper -- 23 April 1945 -- ''New York Herald Tribune'' Announces Russian Forces Have Reached Heart of Berlin

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #988: 'The New York Times'' From 1 May 1945 -- ''Russians Fly Victory Flag on Reichstag...'' & ''...Dachau Captured by Americans...'' -- WWII Ending

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #989: ''The New York Times'' Newspaper From 14 May 1945 -- Bombed Out Berlin on Front Page

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #990: WWII ''New York Times'' Newspaper From 6 August 1945 -- The Day The Atom Bomb Was Dropped on Hiroshima

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #991: ''New York Times'' Announces First Atomic Bomb Drop -- ''Missile is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin'''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #992: WWII Atom Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima -- 8 August 1945 Edition of ''The New York Times'' -- ''...At Hiroshima we unleashed nature itself...and cannot...comprehend the result...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $686

• Lot #993: 9 August 1945 ''The New York Times'' Announces Atom Bomb on Nagasaki

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #994: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #995: WWII ''New York Times'' -- 11 August 1945 -- ''Japan Offers To Surrender''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #996: WWII Draws Closer to an End With the Revealing of Terms in 12 August 1945 ''New York Times'' Newspaper -- ''Allies To Let Hirohito Remain...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #997: 21 August 1945 ''New York Times'' -- ''Japan Will Sign Surrender in 10 Days''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #998: 23 August 1945 ''New York Times'' -- Japanese Surrender Ceremony Planned

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #999: 4 September 1945 ''New York Times'' -- Occupation of Japan

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1000: General Patton's 1909 West Point Yearbook

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1001: George S. Patton, Jr. WWII-Dated Letter Signed -- ''...Thanks very much for your nice letter of congratulations which I deeply appreciate...'' -- 1941

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1002: General Pershing Signed Book

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1003: Pictorial History in Four Volumes -- ''U.S. Official Pictures of the World War Showing America's Participation''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1004: General Matthew Ridgway Typed Letter Signed -- 23 October 1947 -- ''M.B. Ridgway'' -- U.N. Military Staff Letterhead -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1005: WWII Iwo Jima General Holland ''Howlin' Mad'' Smith Typed Letter Signed -- 1945

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1006: Albert Speer Letter Signed -- ''...Currently there are seven of ten grandchildren in the house, whom my mother has to look after, which causes quite a commotion...'' -- 1972

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1007: Albert Speer Letter Signed Mentioning Hitler -- ''...Napoleon is positively fundamentally different from Hitler...'' & ''...the awful circumstances that were found in Hitler's authoritarian...

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1008: Albert Speer Letter -- ''...It's in vain to ponder over American past and missed opportunities...everything will be fine if...one...person will work on it...I'm not sure if President Ford will...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1009: ''The Stars and Stripes'' Newspapers -- April 1945

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1010: General Joseph Stilwell Typed Letter Signed -- ''...[this box of cigars]...will add...relaxation to many otherwise 'tough' conferences...'' -- Dated 1943 From China

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1011: Nazi ''Public Enemy Number One'' Otto Strasser Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I know...how short today '1000 years' are...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1012: WWI ''Lost Battalion'' Colonel Charles W. Whittlesey Letter Signed -- 1919 -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1013: Lot of 25 World War II Letters and Correspondence of Two American Soldiers and Their Mother -- ''...We are really knocking the hell out of them...I trust their souls all rest in hell...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #1014: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D