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<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[AMERICAN WW II OFFICERS] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Collection of five WW II admirals. ALsS, 6pp, large 8vo, ca. 1972. All penned in response to a collector. Rear Admiral </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>H. H. Tiemroth</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>, who participated in the Battle of Midway, sends a description of the “<i>part the USS Balch and her crew played</i>...” [not present] Admiral </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>Hubert E. Strange</span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> “<i>was responsible for forecasting wind and weather for the Yorktown</i>...” Admiral </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform: uppercase'>James S. Russell</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>, “<i>commanding Navy Patrol Squadron 42</i>” describes the Japanese raid at Dutch Harbor. Admiral </span><b><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform: uppercase'>Thomas H. Binford</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> describes the Battle of Java Sea, being “<i>the only commander, after shooting all torpedoes, that was able to fuel and escape to Western Australia with my four destroyers and not damaged</i>...” TLS by Vice Admiral </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Robert M. Griffin</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> describes the Battle of ‘Pips’ in which the Japanese were thought to be attempting “<i>the rescue of their forces in Kiska</i>...” Also present is an ALS by Major General </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Archibald Arnold</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> tersely describing “<i>Attu in the Aleutians, Fog, Dam Cold, More Fog, Cold for Seventy days.</i>..” Lastly, a TLS by historian </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>John L. D. Eisenhower</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>, son of the military leader, notes that he had “<i>never had the experience, as such, of having a piece of work rejected.</i>..” All boldly signed. With transmittal envelopes. VG.</span></p>
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