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Autograph Auction WW2 Space Battle Of Britain Luftwaffe Uboats Bomber Command Dambusters Great War US aces.
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WW2 4 Victoria Cross winners multiple signed VC medal cover. Signed by Rod Learoyd VC, Ian Fraser VC, William Bill Reid VC, Eric Wilson VC. Flown by VC10 and signed by the pilot Wg Cdr G Bunn MBE. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Five Distinguished Flying cross winners signed DFC medal cover DM 2, Includes Lewis Brandon DSO DFC, Sir R Haden DSO DFC, L Tapp DFC 157 sqn. Flown by Victor and also signed by Sqn Ldr C McDougall DFC. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Capt H Fancourt Great War Battle of Jutland HMS Princess Royal signed Great War cover GW21. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Capt S B Courcy-Ireland Great War Battle of Jutland HMS Bellerophon signed Great War cover GW21. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 James Tait DFC Bill Reid VC signed RAF flown bomber cover 1st Flight Halifax. 25 Oct 83 Jersey 1st Flight Handley Page Halifax 25 Oct 1939. Personally Signed by Gp. Capt. J. B. Tait 617 Sqn. who led the attack on the battleship Tirpitz. Awarded 4 DS0's. Flown on Lancaster PA474. Details and Photo enclosed also signed by Bill Reid Victoria Cross holder. Certified Copy No 299 of 1400. Very few issued with additional Reid VC signature. RAF Museum Reference no B31c. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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RN19d FAA Museum Reflown Concorde signed Brian Trubshaw Concorde Pilot. 24 Mar 85 BFPS 1466 Fleet Air Arm Development Project. Personally signed by the B White Director of Fleet Air Arm Museum. Cover Reflown in Concorde 002 on the last Flight Fairford - Yeovilton also signed by Brian Trubshaw Concorde Pilot. Backstamped 4 Mar 1976. F A A Museum. RNAS Yeovilton. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Battle of Britain cover Signed by 3 BOB fighter pilots inc Wroblewski rare RAFA11a. 16th September 1990 Duxford Air Day Special Postmark 50th Anniversary Battle of Britain Major Assault 27-29 Aug 1940. Flown in HS 125 of No 32 Sqn. Personally Signed by 3 Battle of Britain Pilots, Wg Cdr T A Vigors DFC 222 Sqn Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot WW11 Fighter Ace with 6 Victories. 1st Victory at Dunkirk in Spitfire Z T A Wroblewski 302 Sqn Polish Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot. John Keatings Air Gunner 219 Sqn. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Dambuster raid veteran Fred Sutherland signed 617 sqn cover. Gunner On Dams Raid. 21 Mar 08 Scampton 75th Anniversary Formation of No 617 Sqn. Autographed by Flying Officer Freddie Sutherland he was front gunner on Pilot Officer Les Knight's aircraft Lancaster AJ-N that went first to the Mohne Dam before successfully attacking and breaching the Eder Dam. On Dams Raid 17th May 1943. Flown cachet on the Back Flown over the Derwent Dam on the 50th Anniversary of the Dams Raid in Lancaster PA 474 'The City of Lincoln of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Details enclosed. Certified Copy No 4 of 25. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Dambuster raid Les Munro signed rare RAF cover Cheshire VC Gnome and Rhone Aero engine Factory Raid. 9 Feb 00 Woodhall Spa Cheshire VC Cover Gnome and Rhone Aero engine Factory Raid Personally Signed in Pencil Les Munro Dambuster pilot with 617 Sqn. Operation Chastise May 16/17 1943. On the 2nd Wave with Lancaster ED921, 'AJ-W', which sustained heavy flak damage, and with the Wireless and Intercom rendered unserviceable was forced to return back to base. Details enclosed. Certified Copy no 10 of 10 Signed. Squadron Leader John Leslie Munro, CNZM, DSO, QSO, DFC, JP (5 April 1919 - 4 August 2015) was a Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot during World War II and the last surviving pilot of the Dambusters Raid of May 1943. Munro learned to fly in Tiger Moths at the RNZAF's Flying Training School at Bell Block near New Plymouth, and on graduation chose to fly bombers so was posted to Canada for initial bomber training. He trained on twin-engine aircraft in Saskatchewan[5] at RCAF Station Saskatoon, the present-day John G. Diefenbaker International Airport in Canada. He moved to England in October 1941 for further training, and joined 97 Squadron at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire. There, he flew Avro Manchesters and then Avro Lancasters in 1942/43 and while there his Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted, on 11 June 1943. On 25 March 1943, Munro, along with Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy and Squadron Leader David Maltby, were transferred to 617 Squadron to be part of the secretive Dambusters raid forming at RAF Scampton. The squadron was created to attack the dams of the Ruhr in an effort to wreck the industrial capacity of Germany. It was initially called Squadron X, as the speed of its formation outstripped the RAF process for naming squadrons. Twenty-one bomber crews were selected from existing squadrons in 5 Group. These crews included RAF personnel of several different nationalities, as well as members of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), who were frequently attached to RAF squadrons under the Empire Air Training Scheme. Munro (the only RNZAF pilot in the squadron) took part in the Upkeep trials on 12 May; flying ED921. In Operation Chastise Munro was in Wave 2 in ED921 W. Of the 19 Lancasters that flew on that full-moon night, only 11 returned. Munro, as pilot of W-Willie, was scheduled to bomb the Sorpe dam. Over the Netherlands, his aircraft was damaged by flak which knocked out all communications, so it turned back to land in Lincolnshire, still carrying its mine. His Distinguished Service Order was awarded while he was with 617, on 28 March 1943. Munro was promoted to squadron leader on 14 February 1944 and was posted to command 1690 BDTF Squadron (Bomber Defence Training Flight) on 13 July 1944. His logbook shows that when departing Scampton to bomb Bremen with four 500 lb general-purpose bombs, his aircraft crashed and burned shortly after take-off, but the crew escaped. Munro took part in Operation Taxable in conjunction with the D Day landings in Normandy in which the Lancasters flew precise, elongated circuits dropping Window (aluminium strips), to convince German radar installations that a huge flotilla of ships was approaching Cap d'Antifer. The ruse was successful and the last of No. 617 Squadron Window droppers witnessed German shore batteries firing on the Ghost convoy. Munro described the operation in his logbook as: The creation of a tactical surprise to support the landing of troops on the opening of the second front. The most hazardous, difficult and most dangerous operation ever undertaken in the history of air warfare. Involved flying within at least nine miles of the enemy coast without fighter cover, and in conditions of bright moonlight and at a height of not more than 3000 ft (three thousand) at which the aircraft was open to attack by the deadliest of all weapons - light flak. Munro's co-pilot on this operation was Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire, the squadron's commanding officer who later was awarded the Victoria Cross. When Cheshire was stood down, Cochrane also stood down 617's three flight commanders Dave Shannon from Australia, Joe McCarthy from Canada, and Les Munro. Munro was not happy as he had flown 59 ops and said: I would have preferred the round figure of sixty ops. I never thought it would have been pressing my luck to go on. I don't think any of us did. We were all very close-knit and ran a very efficient operation during the Cheshire era. He exuded confidence in his own abilities, in flying, in operations and running the squadron, and that skill and professionalism filtered down to all of us. So Munro was released from the Royal Air Force on 5 February 1946, and retired from flying. He was known (sarcastically) as Happy or Smiler because he was famed for his dour demeanour. In a 2006 interview, Munro said of his war experiences that he . would be the first to admit that I was pretty lucky. Most blokes who survived even a couple of operational tours would say that luck was on their side. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 8 Battle of Britain Pilots multiple signed RAF Sir John Grandy cover. Rare variety. 27 June 87 BFPS 2139 Marshall of the RAF Sir J. Grandy. Personally Signed by Marshal of the RAF Sir John Grandy, He was the only officer who fought and commanded a squadron during the Battle of Britain to reach the post. 8 Battle of Britain Pilot, crew WAAF. John Booth 600 and 23 Sqdn's Blenheim's Air Gunner, Alan W Gear 32 Hurricane Sqn, pilot, Avis Hearn awarded M M for Bravery, WAAF, Sqn Ldr J G P Millard Nos 1 and 242 Squadrons pilot, Sqn Ldr H. M. T. Heron 266 and 46 Sqn pilot, John Keatings 219 Sqn Air Gunner, A. L. Winskill 72 and 603 Sqn's, Spitfire pilot Ace. Donald Stones 79 sqn. Some Details from Men of the Battle of Britain Book enclosed. Very few issued with additional Signatures. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Sinking of Bismarck Signed J N Bathurst DSC HMS Norfolk Navy official cover. 27 May 1991 50th Anniv of the Sinking of Bismarck Personally Signed J N Bathurst OBE DSC As Lt Watchkeeping Officer at time of Action. Reference number 7RNCC16 Certified No 32 of 215. Covers issued. He served in the Royal Navy League Cadets 1929-1932. He was appointed as a Midshipman RNR (With seniority dated 01/05/1934). (Transferred to RN) He was appointed as a Probationary Sub-Lieutenant RN (With seniority dated 11/04/1937). He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant RN (09/05/1938 with seniority dated 11/04/1937). In 1938 he served in HMS Hotspur. He was appointed as a Lieutenant RN (With seniority dated 12/10/1938). In 1940 he served in HMS Rooke. In 1940 he served in HMS Norfolk. In 1041 he served in HMS President for Special and Miscellaneous Duty (Submarine course). In 1942 he served in HMS Nimrod (Anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown for instructional duties. In 1943 he served in HMS Pelican as Anti-Submarine Officer. He was appointed as an A/Lieutenant-Commander RN (With seniority dated 01/11/1944). In 1944 he served in HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (for radar school). In 1945 he served in HMS Nelson (Anti-Submarine Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet). He was appointed as Lieutenant-Commander RN (With seniority dated 12/10/1946) He served in many theatres during the war including the Battle of Narvik in HMS Hotspur, an engagement with the Bismarck while serving in HMS Norfolk. In 1951 he served in HMS Reclaim (In command) the Royal Navy deep diving ship. (He was released 15/03/1954. ) (Short Service Appointment 16/03/1954). He was appointed as a Lieutenant-Commander (SSA) RCN (With seniority dated 12/10/1946). He served in NHQ as Staff Officer (Clearance Diving and Seaward Defence) on the Staff of the Director Torpedo Anti-Submarine 1954. (He was released. ) (He was qualified with a Watch-keeping Certificate. He was qualified as a Clearance Diver and TAS Officer. ). Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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2RN12c 1st Launch Aircraft from Ship Signed The Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 8 May 78 - BFPS 1609 - 64th Anniversary of the Launch of Plane (527) From Ship (HMS Hibernia) Underway. Personally Signed by Major Samson son of Lt. Samson who made the launch in 1912 also signed by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma Pilot who flew in S. 27 in 1911. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Navy WW2 Fraser VC and T Gould signed 1988 Armada FDC with rare CDS postmark. 19 JY 88 Altofts CDS Postmark ( Birthplace of Sir Martin Frobisher ) on Full set of 5 Armada Stamps with added 50p definitive and 5p Martin Frobisher Stamps. Sent Registered Post. Personally Signed by Lieutenant Commander Ian E Fraser VC DSC RD* Served on the Submarines H43, H44 and Sahib ( DSC) Commanded midget Submarine XE 3 from its launch. Operation Struggle the Attack on Japanese shipping at Singapore successfully damaging the Japanese cruiser, Mr T Gould VC Holder On 16 February 1942 north of Crete, in the Mediterranean, HM Submarine Thrasher, after attacking and sinking a supply ship, was itself attacked. Thrasher was subjected to a three hour depth charge attack and aerial bombing Later, after surfacing, two unexploded bombs were discovered in the gun-casing. Petty officer Gould and Lieutenant Roberts removed the bombs. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Battle of Britain Pilots multiple signed RAF cover FF20 World's 1st decisive aerial campaign. 13 Sep 1980 BFPS 1714 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain 40th Anniv of World's 1st decisive aerial campaign The Battle of Britian. Blue and Red flown cachets flown in Lancaster MK. B1 PA474 of the Battle of Britain Memorial flight and in Sepecat Jaguar GR1, XX824 17Sqn RAF Bruggen. Personally Signed by 8 Battle of Britain Pilots, Crew. Gp Capt G H Westlake 213 Sqdn WW11 Ace Called up on 1st September 1939, Westlake completed his training and was posted as a flying instructor, firstly at 9 EFTS, Ansty and later 3 FTS, South Cerney. He was commissioned on August 31 1940 and arrived at 6 OUT, Sutton Bridge. After converting to Hurricanes, Westlake was posted to 43 Squadron at Usworth on 21 September 1940. He moved to 213 Sqn at Tangmere on the 29th and he claimed a BF 109 destroyed on 15th November 1940. Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot, Commander R C Hay DSO DSC* Joined the Royal Maries in 1935. He was with HMS Ark Royal for the Norwegian campaign and had taken part in the evacuation of Dunkirk with 801 Sqn. In early July 1940 he was with 808 Sqn Battle of Britain fighter pilot and WW11 Ace later Air Group Commander British Pacific Fleet December 1944 to June 1945 HMS Victorious Richard Haine No 25(F) Sqn 4 Sep 1939 First Blenheim fighter patrol of War. Also 600 Sqn Battle of Britain pilot. Ralph Wolton Battle of Britain Pilot 152 sqn, Trevor Gray 64 Sqn Battle of Britain fighter pilot, Sgt. John Keatings, air gunner, 219 Sqn., Battle of Britain, Plt Off Peter Ayerst who achieved confirmed victories in the Battle of Britain and not eligible for the Battle of Britain Clasp. Sqn Ldr J G P Millard Nos 1 and 242 Squadrons Battle of Britain fighter pilot. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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1990 Gallantry FDC Signed by Victoria Cross Holder 3 George Cross Holders. 11 Sept 1990 Regimental Museum Brecon Defence of Rocke's Drift Special Postmark on Full Set of 5 Gallantry Stamps. Personally Signed by Lieutenant Commander Ian E Fraser VC DSC RD* Served on the Submarines H43, H44 and Sahib ( DSC) Commanded midget Submarine XE 3 from its launch. Operation Struggle the Attack on Japanese shipping at Singapore successfully damaging the Japanese cruiser. 3 George Cross Holders. Joseph Lynch GC awarded the George Cross in 1948, HMS Nigeria lying anchor at Port Stanley Falkland Islands for his bravery in saving the life of a seaman while serving with the Royal Navy. H H Flintoff GC ran to the aid of a Farmer after a Bull turned on him. Personally Signed by Air Marshal Sir John Rowlands GC KBE. Awarded the George Cross for most conspicuous courage and unselfish devotion to duty while dealing with bomb disposal for over two years. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Great War Fred West VC holder Signed on his own historic aviators RAF flown cover HA26c. 6 Sept 1978 Gibraltar with 9p Gibraltar 60th Anniv RAF Stamp. Air Cdre West VC Cover. Flown in Nimrod from Gibraltar of 42 Sqn in a Special Battle of Britain Fly Past. Personally signed Air Cdre Freddie West VC WW1 fighter Ace and Victoria Cross Holder. Won his Victoria Cross as Captain with No 8 Squadron with the Royal Flying Corps in 1918 in France. Saw Richthofen Aircraft crash. Air Commodore F. M. F. West VC, was one of many who saw Richthofen crash. He was returning to his base at Vignacourt ( North of Amiens) in an Armstrong Whitworth FK8 having picked up a pilot of his squadron, who had forced landed near Corbie. They then witnessed the last stages of the air battle and saw a red Fokker DR1 go down and crash on the Morlaincourt Ridge. Later West landed about 2000 yards from the Wreckage and with difficulty walked to the wrecked triplane. He was greeted by the Australian soldiers who told him that the pilot was Baron Von Richthofen, and that he was dead. Certified Copy no 0995 of 1300. Photo's and Details inside. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Wg Cdr R H Stocken RFC 21 Sqn 1916 WW1 Veteran signed 21 Sqn RAF cover. 18 Feb 74 1424 Postmark 21 Squadron Operation Jericho Flown in Devon. Personally Signed by Wg Cdr R H Stocken Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Unit: 48 Sqn Flew RE and July 1916, posted to 21 Sqn 9th Oct 1916 posted France Somme flew BE12s ( Later RE7 ) with them until March 1917, then transferred to 23 Sqn until May 1917, then returned to England as flying instructor with 56 Sqns. Certified Copy no 25 of 50. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Rare C6e Inspectorate of Radio Services RAF cover Signed Rt Hon C Chataway MP and Air Vice Marshal VM Durkin the air Officer. 30 Nov 71 BFPS 1174 25th Anniversary of the Inspectorate of Radio Services Special Postmark. on Set of 4 Communications Stamps Royal Air Force Medmenham. 25th Anniversary of the Inspectorate of Radio Services 30th Nov 1946 - 1971. Picture cachet of Armstrong Whitworth Argosy. Blue flown cachet flown from RAF Cottesmore to RAF Gibraltar on 30 Nov 71, and then to RAF Luqa ( Malta ) and RAF Akrotiri ( Cyprus ) in Argosy 'Iris IV ' XN 816 of 115 Sqn RAF Returning to Cottesmore on 10 Dec 71 Captain Flt Lt A S Dick - Cleland total flight time 28 hrs 10 mins. Added blue cachet Special Anniversary Flight and red 25th Anniversary Year of the formation of No 90 Group with Valletta backstamp 9 - pm DE 2 pmk. Personally Special Signed by Rt Hon Christopher Chataway MP and Air Vice Marshal VM Durkin the air Officer Commanding No 90 group. Certified Copy No 0016 of 106. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Hans Rossbach WW2 U - Boat Series cover no11 Signed by Wilheim Schulz Cdr U 10, U 124. 10 Oct 72 30th Anniversary of the Formation of the Squadron. Personally Signed by Korvettenkapitan Georg-Wilhelm Schulz U Boat Commander U 10 and U 124. Wilhelm Schulz began his Navy career, after a long time (ten years) in the merchant marine, where he spent some years on sailing ships. In October 1933 he joined the Kriegsmarine as HSO, Handelschiffoffizier (merchant ship officer). On 27 September, 1935 he joined the U-boat arm, making him one of those officers who received a solid pre-war training. In January 1939 he got his first command, and with U-10 he completed two short patrols in the autumn of 1939. After the usual 'Baubelehrung' he commissioned U-64 on 16 Dec, 1939. Her first patrol took place in Norwegian waters in April 1940, but the boat was sunk on 13 April, 1940 by bombs from a British Swordfish aircraft (Niestlé, 1998). Kptlt. Schulz was among the 38 survivors. Two months later Schulz commissioned U-124, also a Type IXB. He achieved especially notable success on his fourth patrol, where he sank 11 ships for a total of 52, 379 tons and damaged two more. Schulz left the boat in September 1941. Kptlt. Schulz became the commander of the 6th Flotilla, first in Danzig, then in St. Nazaire. In October 1943 Korvkpt. Schulz was attached to the Staff of the 'FdU Ausbildungsflottillen' (Commander Training flotillas) in Gotenhafen. Here he was the A I (first admiral staff officer) and was also the leader of the 'Erprobungsgruppe U-Boote' (U-boat testing group), where the new boat types (XXI and XXIII) were tested. On 22 April, 1945 he became the last commander of the 25th Flotilla. With added German Detailed Cachet on the back. Enclosed 10 Black and White Photo's Cover. Cover number 11 of 48 in U Boat Series And cover no 56 of Only 100 covers. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Hans Rossbach Uboat Series WW2 cover no26 Signed by Helmut Witte U Boat Cdr U159. 25 Aug 71 BFPS 1170 70th Anniversary of the Royal Aero Club. Royal Air Force Fylingdales. Commemorating The Joint RAF USAF BMEWS Operation. Cover depicts Handley Page Halifax No 158 Squadron 1944. Personally Signed by Captain Helmut Witte Knights Cross Died 2005, U boat Commander U - 159 during WW11 With German Detailed Cachet on the back. Enclosed 5 Black and White Photo's Cover number 26 of 48 in U Boat Series And cover no 59 of Only 100 covers. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Bill Sparks RM Cockleshell Hero signed Navy WW2 cover Operation Frankton cover also signed by Lt Gen Sir H Beverley. 11 Dec 92 - Gibraltar - 4p 150th Anniversary of the Diocese in Gibraltar in Europe - the Attack on Enemy Shipping at Bordeaux - 50th Anniversary of Operation Frankton immortalised in the film The Cockleshell Heroes. Personally Signed by Bill Sparks DSM Royal Maries The last of the Cockleshell Heroes. Escaped from enemy occupied France into Gibraltar and Signed by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Beverley KCB OBE Commandant General Royal Marines. Certified Copy 135 of 150. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Rare JSF12 RAF cover Reflown 75th Ann 32 Sqn Signed John Major and Pilot. 15 Jun 91 BFPS 2293 75th Anniversary of Formation of No. 32. Sqn. Flown Gazelle. Reflown in HS125 to RAF Marham for the RAF 75th Anniversary Review by HM The Queen. Personally Signed by Wg Cdr J D Bullen RAF Officer Commanding No 32 Sqn and Right Honourable John Major MP Prime Minister. Certified Copy No 27 of 32. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed rare 1991, RFDC93 cover, 25th ann of the VC10 in service of the Prime Minister. BFPS special postmark. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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No 202 Sqn WW2 RAF cover Signed Victor Otto Oehrn Cdr U-boats U-14, U-37, 8th Nov 1972 No 202 Sqn 30th Anniversary of Operation Torch Flown from Gibraltar in Bristol Britannia of 511 Sqn. Personally Signed by FregaftenKapitan Victor Otto Oehrn (21 October 1907 - 26 December 1997-Bonn, Germany) was a Fregattenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He commanded the U-boats U-14 and U-37, sinking twenty-four ships on four patrols, for a total of 104, 846 tons of Allied shipping. With German Detailed Cachet on the back. Enclosed 4 Black and White Photo's Cover number 4 of 48 in U Boat Series And cover no 46 of Only 100 covers. U Boat Series of 48 issued by famous German historian Hans Rossbach. Only 100 Sets issued. This Cover is part of 48 commemorative covers produced in the middle 70`s by the famous German historian Hans Rossbach. Only 100 covers individually signed by a Knights Cross winner who won the award in the course of his U - Boat duty. All autographs are on RAF covers. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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617 Sqn Reculver Bay Signed 8 member of 617 Sqn during WW11. 11 Apr 07 The Cenotaph Special Weapons Test Upkeep Bomb. Reculver Bay 11th April to 14th May 1943. Personally Signed by 10 Men who served in 617 Dambuster Squadron during WW11. Personally Signed by Les Munro Dambuster pilot with 617 Sqn. Operation Chastise May 16/17 1943. On the 2nd Wave with Lancaster ED921, 'AJ-W', which sustained heavy flak damage, and with the Wireless and Intercom rendered unserviceable was forced to return back to base. Rowland Smith 617 Sqn Tail Gunner with 9, 619 and 617 Squadrons. His Pilots were Stout and Knilans. Took put in many raids including the U - Boat - Pens at Brest and Lorient, Flying Bomb Sites, Attack on the Factories of Albert - France, the attack on Toulouse. R ( Reg ) Blagdon air gunner with 61 and 617 Squadrons. His operations were carried out in Europe. Raids on Watten, Siracourt, Boulogne, Lyon, Wizernes, St Cyr and Munich. The aircraft he flew in were Blenheim, Wellington, Lancaster, Liberator and the Dakota. Gerrad Henry. Hobbs warrant Officer - Wireless operator/Air Gunner Squadrons : 50, 617. Theatres of Operation: Europe He was on many raids with 617 including Saumur Tunnel, D Day Spoof, Le Havre and Wizernes of which he was shot down and taken prisoner on 24th June 1944 in Northern France. Aircraft flown : Lancaster. Warrant Officer Alec Shaw Bates 617 Sqn Wireless Operator. Cockshotts Crew Tirpitz raid 12th Nov 1944. Charles Basil Fish Navigator with 617 Sqn. He was on the raid of the 11th to 12th Nov 1944 which was the final raid that the Tirpitz. He was on many other raids, which included the Dortmund - Ems - Canal, Brest, Kembs, Canal Dam, Urft Dam and Berchtesgaden Raid. Flying Officer James Soilleux. 617 Sqn in this action. Flying Officer Flight Engineer Squadrons 61, 617, 46, 466, 231. His many raids included two on Brest, three on the Tirpitz, two on Lyons and one each on D Day Spoof and Clemont Ferrand the bombing on Munich and the Siracourt V - weapon storage site and on Angouleme raid. Theatres of operation France and Germany. Aircraft flown, Lancaster, Stirling, Halifax, Liberator. Flt Lt Sydney Grimes wireless operator with Sqns 106, 617, 9, 50. theatres of operation Battle of Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin with 106 Sqn, Sinking of the Battleship Tirpitz, Urft Dam, E and R boat pens, Bielefeld Viaduct and Dortmund Ems Canal all with 617 Sqn Details enclosed Certified Copy no 1 of 2. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Sinking the Bismarck Navy cover Signed J A Grindle, P D Gick Swordfish Pilot Both in the action. 27 May 77 - BFPS 1578 - 8p Chemistry stamp. Commemoration of the sinking of the Bismarck Signed by Captain J A Grindle CBE Executive Officer HMS Rodney in the action. also Signed by Rear Admiral P D Gick Swordfish Pilot in the action with 825 Sqn flew off HMS Victorious. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Rare 230 Sqn RAF cover Signed by Gerd Kelbling WW2 U boat Commander U- 593. 15 Apr 73 BFPS 1308 postmark No 230 RAF 60th Anniversary of the Formation of the Squadron. Blue flown cachet Flown in Puma of 230 Sqn from RAF Oliham via Westland Helicopters Yeovil to Westland Heliport London. Personally Signed by Captain Gerd Kelbling Knight Cross holder U boat Commander U - 593 during WW11 credited with the sinking of 9 ships for a total of 38, 290 tons of Allied merchant shipping. U - 593 was sunk on the 13 December 1943 in the Mediterranean by Depth Charges from US Destroyer Wainwright and RN Destroyer HMS Calpe. Whole crew taken as Prisoner of War. With German Detailed Cachet on the back. Enclosed 4 Black and White Photo's Cover number 35 of 48 in U Boat Series. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Russia Space FDC Signed by G V Sarafanov (Pilot) and L S Demin Cosmonauts. Russian FDC Mockea Postmark Personally Signed by Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov (1942-2005) Russian pilot cosmonaut. Died 2005-09-29. Durationin space 2. 01 days. Flew on Soyuz 15 also Signed by Demin, Lev Stepanovich (1926-1998) Russian engineer cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz 15. Died 1998 Details enclosed. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Rare Space Cover Signed Crew Soyuz 14 Pavel Popovich Yury Artyukhin Cosmonauts. Rare Space Cover dated 18 10 Mockba Personally Signed by Pavel Romanovich Popovich (1930-2009) Ukrainian pilot cosmonaut. Flew on Vostok 4, Soyuz 14. Commander of first military space station mission. Graduated from Military Pilot School, Grozny, 1954. Graduated from Air Force Academy, Monino, 1968. Cosmonaut training March 1960 - 18 January 1961. Was to have been commander of the first crew for Salyut 2 in April 1973. Call sign: Berkut (Golden Eagle). Director of AIUS Agroresurs, Moscow. Detachment: TsPK-1. Departed Date: 1982-01-26. Marital Status: Deceased. First date: 1930-10-05 Died 2009-09-29. Duration: 18. 69 days. Yury Artyukhin Pilot Cosmonaut flight engineer. Soyuz 14 was the first successful Soviet mission to a space station. Commander Pavel Popovich and flight engineer Yuri Artyukhin boarded and spent 15 days on the space station Saylut 3. Details enclosed. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Space Cover Signed A Filipchenko, V Gorbatko Russian Soyuz 7 cosmonauts. Rare Space Cover 22 X 69 Mockba Personally Signed by Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko (1928-) Russian pilot cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz 7, Soyuz 16. Graduated from Air Force Military Academy, Monino, 1961. In 1987 he earned the candidate of military sciences degree. Major General, Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut training January 1963 - 21 January 1965. Call sign: Buran (Snowstorm). Duration: 10. 88 days. Also Signed by Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko (1934-) Russian pilot cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, Salyut 6 EP-7. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Space cover Signed Georgi T Beregovoi Ukrainian pilot cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz 3. 26 10 78CCCP Postmark Space cover Personally Signed by Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, (1921-1995) Ukrainian pilot cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz 3. Graduated from Higher Air Force School. Doctorate degree in physics, 1975. Flew 185 combat missions during World War II. Shot down three times, but always managed to return to Soviet lines. Prominent test pilot in the 1950's, including flight of zero-launch rocket-boosted fighters. Cosmonaut training completed 21 January 1965. Cause of Death: Heart failure during surgery. Born 1921-04-15. Died: 1995-06-30. Duration: 3. 95 days. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Space Cover Signed by Valery Bykovsky Soviet Cosmonaut Vostok 5. 8 12 83 Mockba Russian Space Cover Personally Signed by Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky. Who was born 2 August 1934, Pavlovsky Posad. He is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37. Bykovsky set a space endurance record when he spent five days in orbit aboard Vostok 5 in 1963. Although this flight duration has long since been surpassed by crews of more than one person, to this day it remains the endurance record for a solo spaceflight. Bykovsky was to have commanded the original Soyuz 2 mission, which was cancelled due to problems with Soyuz 1. After the parachutes failed on that mission, killing Vladimir Komarov, the same problem was found with the Soyuz 2 capsule, which meant if the mission had flown, Bykovsky and his crew would also have been killed. Details enclosed. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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ES31c Marie Claire cover Signed Mary Lindell Comtesse de Milleville WW2 Resistance M19. 11 X 1983 Paris Reseau Marie Claire Cover depicts Mary Lindell headquarters of Reseau in WW11. Personally Signed by Mary Lindell OBE Comtesse de Milleville MI9 was a British born heroine of the French Resistance in the Second War. Codename Marie Claire she headed the Resistance organisation at Lyons where she ran an Escape route out of occupied France for Allied airmen, Soldiers and refugees. In 1942 she smuggled the only two survivors of the celebrated Cockleshell Heroes Major Blondle Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks out of France to Spain following their successful raid on German Blockade running ships to Bordeaux. This Commando mission was described by Mountbatten as one of the most courageous and imaginative operations of the Second World War. 1943 arrested by the Gestapo at Pau railway station in November., The Gestapo were reasonably sure that they had caught the notorious Comtesse de Milleville alias Maries - Claire. After interrogation at Biarritz she attempted a escape during the journey to Paris by attempting to leap from the train. She was shot in the head and through her cheek by a guard taken to a hospital in Tours, where a German surgeon saved her life. She was frequently imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo. Finally in 1944 and thrown into the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women at Ravensbruck near Berlin where as she later put it conditions were pretty dim for the general public. Mary Lindell died in 1986 aged 92. Full details enclosed and. 2 photo's enclosed. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Nigel Mansell Ferrari F1 Motor Racing champ signed cover JS(CC)39e The Prancing Horse. 3. 3. 98 - Bruxelles - The Prancing Horse - Ferrari. Red Flown cachet on the back Flown in F-104 ASA of 9 Gruppo from Grosseto - Arezzo - Perugia - Tasimeno - and return the aircraft Piloted by Lieutenant Mario Abeille. Personally Signed by Nigel Mansell OBE Ferrari 641 ( 1990) 31 GP Wins /F1 Champion 1992 Indy Car Champion 1993, Certified Copy 0064 of 100 Signed. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Lockheed F104 twinned with Formula 1 signed by Sir Jack Brabham 14 GP Wins. Personally signed by Motor Racing legend Sir Jack Brabham 14 GP Wins World Champion 1959, 60 and 66. RAF Reference NoJS(CC)38f Certified Copy no 0180 of 250. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Sir Stirling Moss FDC signed Internetstamps official Grand Prix FDC scarce. 3 July 2007 Aintree Liverpool Postmark on Full Set of 6 Grand Prix stamps. British Grand Prix Triumph Motor Sport 50th Anniversary Stirling Moss. Picture Cachet of Sir Stirling Moss wins the Grand Prix 1957. Personally Signed by Sir Stirling Moss. Was British Formula One Motor Racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several different motorsports competitions and has been described as ''he greatest driver never to win the Formula One World Championship''. Details enclosed. Cover numbered 238 of 300. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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1944 D Day Cover Signed by 3 men took part, R Todd, Jim Wallwork, E Gueritz. 6 Jun 44 D Day Dione Special Postmark on 3c USA Stamp and 5 et 6 Juin 2004 Laurent Operation OMAH Postmark on French 50 debarouements and Liberation. Special postmark. Personally Signed by Richard Todd with 6th Airborne Pegasus Bridge 6th June 1944 And who portrayed Guy Gibson in the Film The Dam Busters. Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork D - Day Glider Pilot Pegasus Bridge. Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork set off on the evening of 5 June 1944, bound for LZ 'X' and what was to be the beginning of the invasion of Normandy. The Horsa glider that he flew (later known as Glider 1) was nicknamed 'Lady Irene' by Wally Parr, one of the gliders occupants from the 2nd Battalion The Ox and Bucks Light Infantry and landed in occupied France shortly after midnight. Their objective was the lifting bridge over the Caen canal at the small village of Benouville to the North of Caen. The force of the impact catapulted both Wallwork and his second pilot, John Ainsworth, through the front of the cockpit. Although stunned, this made them the first Allied troops to touch French soil on 'D'-Day. Although suffering from the landing with the wounds to his head he managed to carry much needed ammunition boxes up to the troops defending the Caen Canal Bridge at Benouville, which was later named 'Pegasus Bridge' in honour of the 6th Airborne Division. This remarkable achievement was described as the greatest feat of flying of the second world war by Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Although most famous for his part in the Battle of Normandy, Jim Wallwork flew gliders in two other major British airborne operations of the Second World War, Arnhem and the Rhine Crossings, one of only a very few pilots from the Glider Pilot Regiment to take part in all four major mass glider assaults. Rear Admiral Gueritz CB OBE DSC was a principal beach-master on Sword beach on June 6 1944, landing at around 8am, as he put it part of the beach group whose job it was to make order out of chaos. He was responsible for helping landing craft beach, unload troops or tanks and then retract safely so that the next craft could come in. It wasn't new to Gueritz - he'd already been the principal beach-master in the Madagascar landings in 1942. Gueritz was on Sword Beach for 19 days until he was wounded. I had just put my helmet on but didn't duck quickly enough, he recalled. It wasn't until he removed his helmet at the field hospital much later that he noticed the big hole in it and the wound to his head. Without the helmet (and without the skill of a neurosurgeon back home in Britain), Gueritz knows he would not have survived. Details and Certificate Authenticity enclosed. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Rare SC18d RAF Tern Hill RAF cover Signed Lt Col Alonso Vega Reflown 100 issued. 10 Jan 71 BFPS 1160 RAF Tern Hill Commemorating the Formation of the RAF Rotary Winged Force and Aerodromo Militar de Cuatro Vientos Postmarks. Red Flown Cachet Flown in Augusta Bell 205 No 4012 by Lt Col H Alonso Vega ( Spanish Forces ) from the Helicopter Training School at Cuatro Vientos. The Cover bears an additional 20c Spanish stamp, depicting a Helicopter and was handstamp at Cuatro Vientos. Personally Signed Lt Col Alonso Vega. Only 100 issued. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Cunard QE2 last Captain Commodore R. W Warwick signed 12 x 8 inch photo in port. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Cunard QE2 last Captain Commodore R. W Warwick signed 12 x 8 inch photo at sea. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Capt Eric Winkle Brown DFC AFC signed scarce Hawker Tempest Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS (21 January 1920 - 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. Brown held the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed (2, 407 and 2, 271 respectively) and achieved several firsts in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft, an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, a jet aircraft, and a rotary-wing aircraft. Brown flew almost every category of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force aircraft: glider, fighter, bomber, airliner, amphibian, flying boat and helicopter. During the Second World War, he flew many types of captured German, Italian, and Japanese aircraft, including new jet and rocket aircraft. He was a pioneer of jet technology into the postwar era. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Flt Lt Sir P Holden 287 sqn signed scarce Hawker Tempest Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Flt Lt J Davies 274 sqn signed scarce Hawker Tempest Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. John R. Davies (RAF No. 60107) volunteered for the RAF in 1940. After Initial Training Wing at Torquay he was transferred to 7 Initial Flying Training School at Desford, near Leicester. He learnt to fly on DH82 Tiger Moths and soloed after 12 hrs. 20 min. He left Desford with the grand total of 37hrs. 40min. flying and was posted to RAF Hullavington 9SFTS, near Chippenham. Davies was kept in training command as an instructor, learning to be a Flying Instructor at Central Flying School, Upavon. He was posted back to Hullavington at the end of March 1941 to be an instructor. He stayed at Hullavington until June 1942, when he was transferred to Peterborough to continue instructing on Masters. In October he volunteered to go on to Glider training and was posted to No. 1 GTS at Thame and then Croughton. In October 1943 he was posted to an Operational training Unit, 58 OTU at Grangemouth, doing about 30 hours at OTU. After some leave he joined 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron at Martlesham Heath, flying Spitfire Vb LF's and Mark 9a and 9b. On 3 July 1944 501 Squadron and Davies moved to W. Hampnett and reformed and converted to 274 Squadron and Hawker Tempest Mk. V's. His last operational flight was on 21 October, completing his tour. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Flt Lt B Green Battle Britain and 56 sqn signed Hawker Tempest Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. In December 1936, Bill Green joined the Auxiliary Air Force as an aero engine fitter with 501 Squadron at Filton, near Bristol. Shortly before the start of the Second World War, he was given a rare chance for an engine fitter. In 1938 he joined a scheme to recruit NCO pilots, qualifying as a Flight Sergeant and re-joined 501 at Bristol in July 1940. Sgt Bill Green had completed just 10 hours of dual flying - with an instructor. In October, he was sent for further flying instruction and on October 30th he had his first solo flight in a Magister aircraft. After more training - and getting married on June 3rd - he flew a Hurricane for the first time on August 8th 1940, when the Battle of Britain had been raging for a month. He flew from Kenley throughout the Battle of Britain until November, surviving being shot down twice, before being posted to 504 Squadron. After a spell instructing on Spitfires and Tomahawks, he converted to Typhoons, and from November 1944 served with 56 Squadron on Tempests. He flew more than 50 missions in Tempest fighter aircraft with 56 Squadron. He was shot down over Germany on February 22nd 1945 and spent the last three months of the war as a prisoner of war. After the war, Green enjoyed a hugely successful business career, ending up as the managing director and chairman of Crown Paints, before retiring on his 60th birthday. Flight Lieutenant Bill Green, who has died aged 97, was twice shot down flying a Hurricane during the Battle of Britain; five years later he was taken prisoner after again being shot down, this time over Germany. Green had less than 200 hours' flying time, and just seven hours in the Hurricane, when he joined No 501 Squadron and was pitched into the fighting at the height of the Battle of Britain in August 1940. On August 24, flying from Hawkinge in Kent, his squadron was scrambled to intercept a raid against the nearby airfield at Manston. Green closed in to attack an enemy dive-bomber when his aircraft was hit by the airfield's anti-aircraft fire. His Hurricane was badly damaged and the engine stopped - but he managed to glide to Hawkinge, where he discovered half the undercarriage had been shot away. He crash-landed and scrambled from the wrecked aircraft. Five days later his squadron was orbiting over Deal at 20, 000ft when a large force of Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters attacked the formation. The windscreen of Green's aircraft was shattered and the engine damaged. With no control, he was forced to bail out. His parachute failed to stream correctly and the main canopy became entangled around his legs. He fought to release it and fell thousands of feet before it finally opened fully. Within seconds he hit the ground. He had been wounded in the leg and his days in the Battle were over. The son of a regular soldier, William James Green was born in Bristol on April 23 1917 and attended St Gabriel School. He left at 14 to work in a cardboard box factory specialising in packages for shoes and small goods, there he met the girl who would become his wife. Green was an enterprising boy and he designed a new, larger box. Receiving no encouragement from his manager, he took it to Mardon, Son and Hall, where he was offered a job. The company encouraged workmen to join auxiliary military units, and Green joined No 501 Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force, stationed at nearby Filton. He trained as an aero-engine fitter and two years later volunteered to be a pilot. He was mobilised at the beginning of the war and completed his training before returning to No 501. After recovering from his wounds, he was posted to No 504 Squadron, based at Filton. One night he was cycling home when German bombers attacked Bristol in force and the city suffered heavy damage. Over the next few days Green flew standing patrols over the city and on a number of occasions chased enemy bombers away. He spent three years as a flying instructor before, in late 1944, joining No 56 Squadron, flying the RAF's most powerful piston-engine fighter, the Tempest. The squadron was based at Volkel in the Netherlands and he flew low-level strafing attacks against trains, motor transport and supply columns. On February 22 1945 he came under fire from two friendly fighters but evaded them, only to be shot down near Osnabruck by intense anti-aircraft fire. I should have zigged when I zagged he said later. Green bailed out and was captured. His prison camp near Nuremberg was soon evacuated and the PoWs marched south to Stalag 7A, a large camp at Moosburg near Munich. On April 29 the US Seventh Army liberated that camp, and within two weeks Green was back in England. He was released from the RAF in December and received the Air Efficiency Award. Green returned to the cardboard box industry, then, in 1960, joined Reed International, rising to be chairman. Green admired the work of the Salvation Army and achieved great contentment in religious activities. In June 2012, aged 95, he flew in a two-seat Spitfire from Goodwood airfield. Bill Green married, in 1940, Bertha Biggs; she died in 2008, and he is survived by their son and daughter. Flight Lieutenant Bill Green, born April 23 1917, died on November 7 2014. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Aden combat pilot Flt Lt R Wilkins 63 sqn signed Hawker Hunter Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Roger joined the RAF as a National Serviceman and was the youngest RAF pilot to take part in the Queen's coronation in 1953. He saw action in the Radfan Campaign in Aden, flying 130 ground attack missions and served in the RAF for over 19 years in four front line squadrons: Nos. 1, 63, 43 and 2. He flew the de Havilland Vampire, Gloster Meteor, BAC Lightning and the Hawker Hunter. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Flt Lt Sir P Holden 74 sqn signed scarce Gloster Meteor Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Aden combat pilot Flt Lt R Wilkins 1 sqn signed Gloster Meteor Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Roger joined the RAF as a National Serviceman and was the youngest RAF pilot to take part in the Queen's coronation in 1953. He saw action in the Radfan Campaign in Aden, flying 130 ground attack missions and served in the RAF for over 19 years in four front line squadrons: Nos. 1, 63, 43 and 2. He flew the de Havilland Vampire, Gloster Meteor, BAC Lightning and the Hawker Hunter. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Aden combat pilot Flt Lt R Wilkins 63 sqn signed Gloster Meteor Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Roger joined the RAF as a National Serviceman and was the youngest RAF pilot to take part in the Queen's coronation in 1953. He saw action in the Radfan Campaign in Aden, flying 130 ground attack missions and served in the RAF for over 19 years in four front line squadrons: Nos. 1, 63, 43 and 2. He flew the de Havilland Vampire, Gloster Meteor, BAC Lightning and the Hawker Hunter. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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RAF Capt J D Penrose 208 (FR) sqn Gloster Meteor Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 P40 P51 pilot Sqn Ldr Ted Trees signed 71 sqn De Havilland Vampire Biography Card. Joining 112 Squadron in August 1944 he flew the P-40 and P-51 completing 132 operations over Yugoslavia, Italy and Austria in support of the ground troops. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 P40 P51 pilot Sqn Ldr Ted Trees signed 71 sqn North American Sabre Biography Card. Joining 112 Squadron in August 1944 he flew the P-40 and P-51 completing 132 operations over Yugoslavia, Italy and Austria in support of the ground troops. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Korea War Lt Cdre Brian Ellis 802 sqn signed Hawker Sea Fury Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Qualifying as a fighter pilot he served with 802 Naval Sqn during the Korean War and Suez Campaign. Whilst flying a Sea Fury from HMS Ocean in Korea in 1952 alongside famous pilot Peter 'Hoagy' Carmichael, Brian was involved in a dogfight with MiG-15s which resulted in him defeating one over Pyongyang. New research has now credited this as the first recorded Royal Navy victory of a piston-engine aircraft over a jet fighter in the Korean War. He later flew Sea Vixens with 890 Sqn and still flies today. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Lt Cdre R M Griffiths 1832 sqn signed Hawker Sea Fury Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 BOB ace Grp Capt Billy Drake DSO DFC signed Curtiss P40 Biography Card, 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Group Captain Billy Drake, DSO, DFC and Bar (20 December 1917 - 28 August 2011) was a British fighter pilot and air ace. He was credited officially with 18 enemy aircraft destroyed, two shared, two unconfirmed, four probables, two shared probables and five damaged and one shared damaged with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. [1] Further revisions to these statistics increased this total to 20 destroyed and seven damaged with a further 13 destroyed and four damaged on the ground. Drake flew Hawker Hurricanes, Supermarine Spitfires and Curtiss P-40s (Tomahawks/Kittyhawks), with squadrons based in France, England, West Africa, North Africa and Malta. He was the top-scoring RAF P-40 pilot and the second-highest-scoring British Commonwealth P-40 pilot, behind Clive Caldwell. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 ace Air Cdre Gordon Steege DSO DFC signed Gloster Gladiator Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Air Commodore Gordon Henry Steege, DSO, DFC (31 October 1917 - 1 September 2013) was a senior officer and pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He became a fighter ace in World War II, credited with eight aerial victories, and led combat formations at squadron and wing level. Born in Sydney, Steege joined the RAAF in July 1937. He first saw action in late 1940 with No. 3 (Army Cooperation) Squadron in the Middle East, where he flew Gloster Gladiator, Hawker Hurricane and P-40 Kittyhawk fighters. Achieving victories in all three types, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after shooting down three German aircraft during a single sortie in February 1941. He rose to command No. 450 Squadron in the Desert Air Force, before returning to Australia in December 1942. Posted to the South West Pacific, he commanded No. 14 Mobile Fighter Sector and, later, Nos. 73 and 81 (Fighter) Wings. He earned the Distinguished Service Order in April 1944 for his outstanding leadership, and finished the war a group captain. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Capt Eric Winkle Brown DFC AFC signed scarce Grumman Martlet 802 sqn Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS (21 January 1920 - 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. Brown held the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed (2, 407 and 2, 271 respectively) and achieved several firsts in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft, an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, a jet aircraft, and a rotary-wing aircraft. Brown flew almost every category of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force aircraft: glider, fighter, bomber, airliner, amphibian, flying boat and helicopter. During the Second World War, he flew many types of captured German, Italian, and Japanese aircraft, including new jet and rocket aircraft. He was a pioneer of jet technology into the postwar era. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Tirpitz Lt Keith Quilter signed Vought Corsair 1842 sqn Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Helping form 1842 Sqn in 1944 he served on board HMS Formidable equipped with Corsairs and attacked the Tirpitz three times, twice on strafing missions and a third dive-bomb attack. Sailing to the Far East with the British Pacific Fleet to support US Navy operations, he flew at Okinawa and was involved in sweeps and ground attacks on Japanese airfields on neighbouring islands. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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WW2 Capt Eric Winkle Brown DFC AFC signed De Havilland Sea Hornet 802 sqn Biography Card. 7 x 5 inch limited edition Printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS (21 January 1920 - 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. Brown held the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed (2, 407 and 2, 271 respectively) and achieved several firsts in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft, an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, a jet aircraft, and a rotary-wing aircraft. Brown flew almost every category of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force aircraft: glider, fighter, bomber, airliner, amphibian, flying boat and helicopter. During the Second World War, he flew many types of captured German, Italian, and Japanese aircraft, including new jet and rocket aircraft. He was a pioneer of jet technology into the postwar era. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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RAF pilot Sqn Ldr Andy Whitson 80 sqn signed De Havilland Hornet Biography Card. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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Great War fighter aces multiple signed RAF flown cover 1974 No. 12 Squadron RAF. Great War fighter aces AVM A Gray, Wg Cdr N MacMillan signed 12 sqn RAF cover. Wing Commander Norman Macmillan OBE, MC, AFC, DL (9 August 1892 - 5 August 1976) was a Scottish officer of the Royal Air Force, a World War I flying ace, test pilot, and author. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Macmillan enlisted as a private in the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry and served in Belgium and France, spending 16½ months in the trenches. He then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, being commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on 26 September 1916 and was appointed a flying officer on 27 February 1917. Posted to No. 45 Squadron RFC flying the Sopwith 1½ Strutter and Sopwith Camel aircraft, he became an ace, being credited with nine aerial victories between 5 June and 20 October 1917. He was also appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of captain on 1 September 1917. Macmillan was removed from front line service after a flying accident on 6 January 1918, and returned to England where he served as a flying instructor. He received the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in February 1918 and also the Air Force Cross. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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