RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Military

Appealing collection of material related to Jack Leland Ball, a machinist mate aboard the USS Savannah, which is highlighted by his “Five-Year Horosco

Fabulous World War II-dated DS in Cyrillic, signed in red pencil, one page both sides, 8.25 x 12, December 25, 1941. Stalin emends the document by add

World War II-dated FDC with a cachet honoring General Douglas MacArthur and a small affixed portrait of the general saluting, neatly signed in fountai

World War II-dated DS in Cyrillic, signed "Brezhnev," one page, 8.25 x 11.25, December 22, 1942. Document recommending Roman Yeliseyevich ...

A signed one dollar, Series 1935-A silver certificate, known as a ‘Short Snorter,' autographed on the front and back in fountain pen by 25 leadi...

Collection of booklets and pamphlets owned by Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes, including: “Programme des fetes de la 3e D.I.A. [Holiday Program of t

Rare printed German broadside headed "Wir greifen an! [We are attacking!]," one page, 6 x 8.25, December 16, 1944. The general order issue...

Signed book: Crusade in Europe. First edition, limited issue, numbered 192/1426. NY: Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover with slipcase, 7 x 10, 559 pages. Sign

Iwo Jima flag-raiser John H. Bradley's personally-owned softcover notebook used during his medical training at Camp Pendleton in 1944, 3.5 x 5.5...

Impressive display of three vintage matte-finish 7.75 x 9.75 three-quarter-length photos of the surviving Iwo Jima flag-raisers, each individually sig

TLS, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 12, 1945. Letter to Martin A. Lewis, in full, “Your kind message regarding my Proclamation is ind

Large hand-colored and annotated map of western Germany, 22 x 29, dated June 4, 1945, from the collection of General Geoffrey Keyes. The map is entitl

Semi-glossy 10 x 8 cardstock photo of three members of the Hiroshima mission, each signing in blue felt tip, “Theodore J. Van Kirk, Navigator,” “Paul

Stirring semi-glossy 8.5 x 11 paperstock photo of Hiroshima in the wake of the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb explosion, signed in blue ink, "...

ALS, signed "Theodore J. Van Kirk, Navigator—Enola Gay, 6 Aug 1945," two notebook pages, 8 x 10.5, no date. Letter written in a question-a...

TLS signed “Theodore J. 'Dutch' Van Kirk,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, no date. In part: "I was selected as the navigator ...

Copy of the blueprints for ‘Little Boy,’ the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, 24 x 18. Van Kirk adds handwritten notations explaining the main diff

Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets and Bockscar pilot Charles Sweeney shaking hands just before Sweeney's flight to Nagasaki, s...

Historically significant collection of photographs compiled in Japan by an American MP in the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in W

Original vintage glossy 4 x 5.5 photograph of burned casualties lying in the rubble at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photogr

Original vintage glossy 4 x 5.5 photograph of a destroyed building at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August

Original vintage glossy 4 x 5.5 photograph of a Japanese soldier cradling an injured child at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military

Original vintage glossy 4 x 5.5 photograph of a soldier tending to casualties and the wounded at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese milita

Original vintage glossy 4 x 5.5 photograph of a mother breastfeeding her injured baby at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photo

Original vintage glossy 4 x 5.5 photograph of the leveled remains of Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August 1

Original vintage glossy 5.5 x 4 photograph of a destroyed three-wheeled motorcycle and overturned basket at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japa

Original vintage glossy 5.5 x 4 photograph of wounded townspeople at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August 1

Original vintage glossy 5.5 x 4 photograph of two young casualties at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August

Original vintage glossy 5.5 x 4 photograph of the debris at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August 10, 1945,

Remarkable original vintage glossy 5.5 x 4 photograph of a surviving torii gate towering over the rubble at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japa

Original vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 4 photograph of people standing in the rubble at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photograp

Original vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 4 photograph of the obliterated Nagasaki landscape with mountains in the background, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a J

Original vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 4 photograph of people walking through the charred remains of Nagasaki with mountains in the distance, taken by Yo

Original vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 4 photograph of the desolate landscape at Nagasaki with a mountain in the background, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a

Original vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 4 photograph of surviving telephone poles lining a busy city street in Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japan

Original vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 4 photograph of a group of young men walking along train tracks in Nagasaki. the devastation seen in the backgroun

Original vintage matte-finish 4 x 5.5 photograph of a woman standing tall in the rubble of Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military pho

Original vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 4 photograph of two injured babies at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on Aug

Original vintage matte-finish 4 x 5.5 photograph of rooftops at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August 10, 19

Original vintage matte-finish 4 x 5.5 photograph of the ruins at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August 10, 1

Original vintage matte-finish 4 x 5.5 photograph of the damaged infrastructure at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer

Original vintage matte-finish 4 x 5.5 photograph of the devastation at Nagasaki, taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, on August

Two signed items, including: a historically significant TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, March 22, 1972, to Mrs. Margot L. Chadwell, in part: "I was...

Group of post-WWII materials owned by General Geoffrey Keyes, including: an eight-page carbon memorandum, 8 x 10.5, no date, entitled "Economic...

DS, one page, 8 x 10.5, February 26, 1947. Official Congressional order issued to William F. Russell to summon "Honorable George C. Marshall, S...

ALS signed “Tony,” one page both sides, 8 x 10.5, Joint Research and Development Board letterhead, May 27, [1947]. Letter to General Rex Chandler, in

TLS signed “Omar N. Bradley,” one page, 8 x 10.5, United States Army, The Chief of Staff letterhead, May 18, 1949. Letter to Lt. Colonel Edwin A. Redd

Historic custom-made green Morocco leather scrapbook, 14 x 11, imprinted on the front cover, "The Medal for Merit, John W. Snyder," contai...

Exceptional vintage matte-finish 11 x 13.75 portrait of Bradley in his military uniform by Pach Brothers of New York, signed crisply in black ink, &...

Vintage 6.75 x 9.25 print of an artistic portrayal of MacArthur by Joseph Cummings Chase, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, ...