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World War II: PhotographyABAA

Photo Album of the Botched Allied Bombardment of the Bezuidenhout

194520240The Hague ca. 1945. Hardcover. Near fine. Two oblong 8vo. albums. First album: 11.5" by 9" approx. String-tied faux-alligator boards. 43 gelatin-silver prints majority 3.75" by 2.5" but many 5.5" by 3.25" mounted to stiff gray leaves with cobweb-patterned tissue guards on each and handwritten captions in Dutch. Apparently complete. Near fine with several photos mildly yellowed but majority bright and sharp. Second album: 13'' by 9'' approx. String-tied grey textured paper boards. 91 gelatin-silver prints of various sizes from 3.75'' by 2.5'' to 5.5'' by 3.25'' most of the latter size on stiff blue paper with tissue guards and handwritten captions in Dutch. Also contains an anti-Hitler card affixed to the front paste-down several cards with art and verse and two sepia-toned photographs on the final page. Two 5'' scuff marks to front board album corners and edges worn and bumped otherwise near fine with bright and sharp photographs. A pair of carefully assembled albums possibly compiled for official use. The majority of the photos in both albums record the aftermath of a botched Allied bombardment in the Hague on March 3 1945; the attack claimed the lives of 511 civilians and left over 20000 people homeless. Targeted at a German missile base in the occupied Netherlands bombs deployed by the Royal Air Force landed instead in the adjacent Bezuidenhout neighborhood in the Hague destroying thousands of homes business and public buildings. The photos show several bombed-out churches and many apartment buildings with street names captioned underneath. Near the end of the first album three images show the burning of the Schevenigen Pier near the Hague which the compiler blames on the Germans but whose exact cause has never been established. The album forms a direct account of wartime destruction in the Netherlands. The second album much more extensive includes some of the same material along with many other photographs. Affixed to the front paste-down is a black-bordered satirical memorial card for Hitler reading in Dutch "He came.but not to England / He saw.Moscow / He lost.the war." Beginning with two views of The Hague one in 1930 and one apparently mid-bombardment labeled March 3 1945 it also includes numerous scenes of destroyed buildings and monuments identified by street name. Some of these overlap with images from the first album; many do not. In addition to those showing the aftermath of the bombing several photos show intact monuments and buildings from neighboring cities like Middelburg possibly as a point of comparison with the ones destroyed. A few pages show photographs of various Bailey bridges at unspecified locations and other wartime construction. The final page of uncaptioned photos includes a shot of a pro-Hitler slogan painted in Dutch on a bridge underpass and a photo of several posters including a Dutch advertisement for "De Eeuwige Jood" The Eternal Jew a German propaganda film. A final leaf follows with two pro-R.A.F. cards with verses and drawings and three souvenir cards of Queen Wilhelmina Princess Juliana and her children Beatrix and Irene. The final page has two sepia-toned photos of a parade presumably celebrating the war's end. An important act of witnessing from an unfortunate event. hardcover books

World War II: Pearl Harbor. WATKINS Gerald M.ABAA

Eyewitness Account to Pearl Harbor Day Attack - Autograph Letter Signed with Related Materials

194019884Various ca. 1940s. Thirteen brown paper leaves loose from a presumably perished scrapbook holding 57 black and white silver print photographs and dozens of ephemeral articles clippings postcards documents etc. tape-mounted to rectos and versos. Prints ranging in size from approximately 1.5Â” square to approximately 8Â” x 10Â” 42 of the 57 photos approximately 1.5Â” square contact prints. WITH Two ALS totaling approximately 650 words. Letters good to very good. WITH About 35 pieces of loose ephemera: military correspondence personal clippings and photographs etc. Scrapbook pages worn flaking at edges loose contents often with tape remnants or residue from previous mounting. Contents overall about good. Pearl Harbor letter very good with folds from mailing light toning and a small chip from right margin. A small archive of World War II service and personal materials belonging to a Gerald Maynard Watkins of Memphis Tennessee highlighted by a monumental Pearl Harbor eyewitness letter written by Watkins to his mother less than 2 weeks after the Japanese attack.Â Watkins was stationed at the Kanehoe Naval Air Station on the East side of the island of OÂ’ahu site of the first Japanese attack carried out just minutes prior to Pearl Harbor approximately 30 miles to the West. His approximately 575 word letter of December 20 1941 describes the surprise onslaught in vivid and revealing detail exceprt: "Then it happened. Never til my dying day will I forget. Bombers. They came from nowhere Â– Seemed to just be there. I looked up just in time to see them drop their eggs. For one startling second the world stood still as I followed the bombs line of drop with my eyes. I couldnÂ’t help it. Fascinated by it all I watched until thy hit. That broke the spell. Courage Â– Every man there was a hero.Â I rushed over to the hangar after the debris had settled. The first person I saw was Lawrence. He was just lying there kind of white looking and awful still. My throat tightened until it was hard to swallow. I knew he was dead." This remarkable eyewitness account one of the best pieces of World War II correspondence weÂ’ve seen is certainly the highlight of the group and its remaining contents are largely typical of World War II-era scrapbooks and archival material with several dozen photographs of his later service in the War many from Canton Island airfield in the Pacific with the decorated Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-52. The balance of contents consist of personal clippings marriage photographs 3 pages seeming to be the fitful beginnings of an attempt at an early draft of a memoir of his Pearl Harbor Day experience and a second wartime ALS written on Christmas Eve 1941 in which he follows up his December 7 experience with a report on a mild injury he suffered during the attack:Â Â“Now that I am well and health once more I can tell you this. I had a very small piece of shrapnel from one of the bombs that were dropped here hit me in the shoulder. I didnÂ’t even have to go to bed. I feel like a veteran now.Â”Â Watkins left the Navy in 1946 after six years of service and went on to a career as a commercial airline pilot. His 2006 obituary notes he entered the University of Miami Law School at 67 years old passing the Florida Bar at 70 to become a practicing lawyer in retirement.Â A handful of primary written accounts of the Pearl Harbor attack are known notably the diary of George Macartney Hunter whose family privately holds the manuscript but have made it available in multiple venues including for use in the 2003 PBS documentary THE PERILOUS FIGHT. The offering of similar materials in commerce appears to be rare with a significantly less impressive letter by a civilian witness to Pearl Harbor several miles from the battle itself making approximately $1200 nearly tripling its high estimate at a small regional auction in 2011. A rare thoughtful and exceptionally revealing participant account with important supporting documentation lending additional context of arguably the defining event of the 20th century. unknown books

Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix · États-Unis4 000,00 $US≈ 3 384,40 €

World War II: Brotherton Henry Alton MajorABAA

WORLD WAR II CENTRAL PACIFIC ARCHIVE OF WARRANT OFFICER HENRY A. BROTHERTON INCLUDING 225 PHOTOGRAPHS A COLLECTION OF MILITARY PAPERWORK AND EIGHT LARGE-FORMAT ORIGINAL CARTOONS

1948WRCAM54508Various places including North Carolina San Francisco but mostly Hawaii 1948. 225 photographs; thirteen photographic negatives; six letters and telegrams; two folders of Brotherton's military paperwork; three original pencil sketches; eight large- format ink and pencil captioned cartoons of the 551st Ordnance H.M. Co.; Brotherton's wife's identification card for Fort McPherson Georgia; a small nameplate for "Lt. Henry Brotherton"; and a Nov. 27 1948 issue of the ARMY TIMES newspaper listing Brotherton as a major under the "Warrant List." Some insect damage to the pencil sketches and one cartoon otherwise generally very good or better condition. A nice collection of material on the wartime experiences of Maj. Henry Alton Brotherton 1920-86 a Warrant Officer from Iredell North Carolina. The numerous photographs feature a variety of settings and subjects. The majority of the photographs emanate from Hawaii showing Brotherton and his wife who apparently joined him at some point after his assignment there either to live for a while or visit other officers and soldiers at work and play studio portraits of Brotherton a handful of 8 x 10-inch press photos and a 4 x 10-inch panorama of the 551th Ordnance Company. Over thirty of the photographs are annotated mostly identifying Brotherton his wife or military subjects in Hawaii in 1945 with three photographs showing the 551st at a "Beer Party." Among the letters and telegrams are a small handwritten note by Brotherton to his wife in North Carolina wishing her congratulations on their wedding anniversary and a Western Union telegram wishing the same dated a day apart from each other; a Dec. 31 1945 telegram from Brotherton to his wife saying that he expects to "be home soon." A Dec. 22 1944 five-page letter from Brotherton's wife Polly includes extremely romantic and borderline racy content from a homefront wife to her husband while he was in training in San Francisco: "My Darling Husband I'm wanting you so terribly much tonight I hardly know how to begin my letter.If I dared put all my emotions on paper this letter would be scorched with passion Brother. I love you I love you I love you!!" The folders of documents include official army service forms rosters reports etc. Notable among the papers are a packet of documents relating to the visit of the President of Mexico to Kansas City in 1947 which Brotherton was tasked with coordinating; a certificate of training for "Mess Management;" a 1946 application for commission in the regular army as well as one for extended active duty; a list of Brotherton's ordnance depot bowling league in which Brotherton is listed near the top with a 163.1 average; and a snarky letter from Brotherton's superior commenting on a traffic citation received by Brotherton: "If all officers had the same attitude as Lt. Brotherton toward parking rules this post would have to have an M.P. on every street and intersection which is neither feasible nor desirable." Perhaps the most notable portion of the archive lies in the nine large black-and- white ink and pencil cartoons on eight sheets. They depict soldiers performing various ordnance tasks on a base presumably somewhere in the central Pacific accompanied by humorous commentary. Six of the cartoons directly reference either the Pacific or California. One cartoon pictures "the men most commonly called as the Bull Gangers who work on the big weapons which give Japs lead poisoning." A few cartoons picture palm trees or reference pineapples. Another cartoon shows two soldiers in conversation with a thought bubble above them showing the Golden Gate Bridge; the caption reads: "I figure that my new tool will speed this war up so fast that we will see the Golden Gate in forty eight." One of the cartoons includes a sign reading: "551st Ord. H. M. Co" Heavy Maintenance Company. These pieces are unsigned so it is unclear if they are Brotherton's work but some of the soldiers depicted are named e.g. Eddie Blackford Mullins and "Big Joe" Galecki. An unusually dense and diverse World War II archive with photographs military documents and original artwork relating to the Pacific Theater of the war. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis3 500,00 $US≈ 2 961,35 €

World War II: African AmericanaABAA

COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS DOCUMENTS AND CLIPPINGS ASSEMBLED BY A MEMBER OF THE SEGREGATED 93rd AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION WHILE SERVING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II

1945WRCAM55788Morotai Bougainville Green Island and other locations in the South Pacific 1945. Three clasp-bound collections of manila folders containing 113 mostly vernacular photographs occasionally captioned in pencil two divisional newsletters copies of Japanese surrender documents and numerous news clippings and assorted ephemera related to the soldier's war experiences. Minor dust-soiling to folders some toning to contents. Overall very good. An informative collection of photographs documents and clippings related to the World War II experiences of the African-American 93rd Infantry Division in the South Pacific. The 93rd Infantry Division was a segregated "colored" unit formed first during World War I and reactivated for service in 1944. The unit was shipped to the Pacific Theater where they served primarily in construction and defensive infrastructure operations. The 93rd occupied Morotai in the Dutch East Indies from April to October 1945 where they witnessed the surrender of the Second Japanese Army. The material in the present collection is organized in three compilations of clasp- bound manila folders with the contents of each compilation annotated in pencil on the front cover. The chief feature of the collection are the 113 photographs arranged thematically throughout the first two folders. Folder One contains photographs and documents pertaining to the Japanese surrender to the division's commander Major General Johnson. There are also photographs showing various Japanese troops surrendering to Australian officers including one of a Japanese officer surrendering to Gen. Thomas Blamey at Australian field headquarters in Morotai. A few photographs emanate from a Japanese hospital ship "taken over by our Div." showing "a few in the hospital." One photograph features an African-American soldier perhaps the compiler of this collection smiling in front of a line of surrendering Japanese soldiers. In the first folder there are also two copies of divisional newsletters: one from the 13th Jungle Air Force; and another titled IGUANA which was the daily newsletter for the 93rd Infantry we could locate no copies of IGUANA in OCLC. Rounding out the first folder are copies of an address on Japanese surrender delivered by Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey to Lieutenant-General Teshima Commander of the Second Japanese Army "On the occasion of the signing of their Surrender Morotai 9th September 1945" and a lithographic copy of the "Instrument of Surrender" between the two combatants. The front cover of Folder Two is titled in pencil "Places and People in the Netherland East Indies and Green Is. in the Northern Solomons and Bougainville." This folder contains images of Australian soldiers in Morotai; numerous pictures of indigenous Morotain people including men women and children; the entrance to the Morotai War Cemetery; photos of the 13th Australian Air Force; overhead images of an active volcano in Bougainville; pictures of Bob Hope Carol Landis a popular Hollywood actress who performed extensively for troops during the war and others on a U.S.O. mission at Bougainville; images of various aircraft including B-29 nose art and Japanese planes; a few pictures of dead Japanese soldiers in Morotai captioned "Good Japs"; photographs featuring the invasion of Morotai; and other images of the South Pacific islands where the compiler was stationed. Folder Three is labeled "Places I've Seen" and is composed of beer labels the compiler collected during his service along with numerous newspaper and magazine clippings memorializing his unit's service. The clippings indicate the compiler also served at Leyte in addition to Morotai Bougainville and Green Island in the Dutch East Indies. An interesting collection of firsthand photographs of an African-American unit's service in the South Pacific during the Second World War. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis1 750,00 $US≈ 1 480,68 €

WORLD WAR II SOLDIER IN JAPANABAA

Just After The Official End Of World War II An Allied Soldier Writes Home From Japan: â€œAomori Was Bombed And It Sure Was Smashed And Burned. Well We Have A Few Japs Working In This Camp And I Think As A Whole They Will Like Better From Now On That Ever Before. There Clothes Are All Patchesâ€

5101WORLD WAR II IN JAPAN. ALS. 2pgs. October 1 1945. Hirosaki Japan. An autograph letter signed â€œDaleâ€ Christensen written home by an Allied serviceman stationed in Japan shortly after the official end of World War II. â€œWell I havenâ€™t had a chance to write for some time. We made it up here O.K. but the ship sure was loaded. We landed at Aomori and this place is inland about 30 miles. We have had no trouble at all. We spent the first night at an airport and then moved to another Army camp the next day then the third bn came up and took over here. I was in on the big thing at this camp I came up with the first gen jeeps and saw the Jap General sign the camp over to us then to top it all off I was picked to take the Jap General to his home. He talked to me all the way but I didnâ€™t know a thing he said. When he got out he saluted me. He seemed happy about the whole thing. The climate here is good and cool. We have a big mt right afore us and it looks just like Mt Fugiama sic. They say it sure gets cold here in the winter. The rice is just headed out and it is very pretty here but I hope I can soon come homeâ€¦We are cleaning this camp up now it sure needed it. I donâ€™t see how the Japs lived in it. Bugs and dirt all over. We sure are making a change in the looks of it. They say they might give each one of us a Jap Rifle and bayonet to take home I donâ€™t think there is any thing to it. I sure would like to have one. They sure can grow the fruit and garden stuff here but they sure are way behind in the way to live. I think even behind the Philippinesâ€¦The papulation sic of this place in 97000 and Aomori â€“ 57000. Aomori was bombed and it sure was smashed and burned. Well we have a few Japs working in this camp and I think as a whole they will like better from now on that ever before. There clothes are all patches but they look healthy and happy. Well I will write more later. I hope we soon get a mail call. Tell Ann and the rest Hello. Everything is fine here. Write soon. Dale.â€ The letter is in fine condition. hardcover books

Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 190,37 €

World War II Photographica: Philippines PhotographicaABAA

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM CONTAINING OVER 130 ORIGINAL IMAGES COMPILED BY A MEMBER OF THE 142nd UNITED STATES NAVAL CONSTRUCTION BATTALION STATIONED IN GUIUAN DURING 1945 FOLLOWING THE PHILIPPINES CAMPAIGN

1945WRCAM54321Philippines; Okinawa; San Diego 1945. 133 silver gelatin photographs most 2 1/2 x 4 inches but ranging from 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 to several 10 x 7 inches. Oblong folio. Black leatherette album strong tied. Light wear. Photos in corner mounts with many captions. Very good. A fascinating photographic account of military service in the Philippines compiled by a member of the 142nd U.S. Naval Construction Battalion the Seabees in 1945. Most of the images approximately three- quarters of the album were taken in Guiuan on Samar Island in the central Philippines where the photographer was stationed. Guiuan city square the Seabees' camp numerous portraits of local girls who sometimes pose with American soldiers local families and their activities native architecture and other local scenes. They also show the Immaculate Conception Church with shots of the exterior and detailed views of the silver altar - built in 1595 to 1844 but completely destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Several other photos evidently portray the album's compiler posing next to an American fighter plane while boiling sea shells in front of his tent etc. The final portion of the album contains photos taken during the operations aboard the USS "Monrovia" and "President Harris" in October-November 1945 including views of Okinawa on the way to China and snapshots of soldiers unloading cargo in the Yellow Sea China before returning to Manila. There are also eight clear views of Manila showing destroyed Japanese cranes and boats in the harbor American army headquarters and a warehouse. The album concludes with a few photos of the homeward voyage and shows soldiers discharged in San Pedro California. Overall a very good album depicting local life and the activities of the 142nd U.S. Naval Construction Battalion in the Philippines and Yellow Sea in the last months of the World War II. hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €

World War II PhotographicaABAA

Extensive Archive of Almost 365 Original Photographs Taken by an American G.I. on Okinawa Just After the Japanese Surrender

19461299Okinawa 1946. Overall very good. 363 original photographs most 3.25 x 4.5 or 3.75 x 5 inches. Loose photos some curling to approximately half of group. About 200 images neatly removed from previous album or other housing with adhesive remnants on blank versos. Pencil annotations with dates and locations on a substantial minority of photographs. Occasional minor wear some fading to several photos but mostly clean crisp images. A remarkable and large collection of over 360 vernacular photographs taken by an American soldier on Okinawa and several other outlying islands in the Amami and Tokara chains following the final surrender of Japanese forces and the end of World War II. The images present here depict a wide array of subjects including the destruction on Okinawa the building of American military camps cleanup and disarmament of Japanese military installations remnants of local villages and Japanese residents attempting to resume their lives. One of the most fascinating and extensive series of images present here documents the disarmament and deconstruction of Japanese island military installations carried out by their own soldiers still in uniform. Numerous photographs depict soldiers carrying bombs arms and equipment out of bunkers and other installations being dismantled under the supervision of American forces. Many images incongruously depict American and Japanese officers deep in consultation or mixed groups of enlisted men working or milling about together. Several shots show Japanese soldiers Japanese soldiers posed at stations in the bunkers as if they were still on duty. A second significant run of images present here depict life such as it was for surviving residents of the islands. Many photographs show rebuilding in progress men and women scavenging materials and farmers working fields and harvesting hay and grasses. Others document aspects of town life -- small gatherings of villagers children playing men returning from a fishing expedition women washing clothes in an irrigation ditch. A few photos show a group of women from the local red light district. Overall these images give an excellent and detailed view of the situation on the outlying islands of Japan just after the conclusion of the war. The photographer clearly had license or orders to travel fairly widely and his photographs are taken from varied locations on Okinawa and several other islands south of the Japanese mainland including Tokunoshima Amami Oshima and Takarajima. The landscape on these as it appeared in the direct aftermath of the war is extensively documented. Although the photographer is not identified he is clearly the subject of several portraits posed in front of military airplanes on ships with groups of soldiers and with local Japanese people. The images display a good sense of composition and a keen eye for interesting subject matter and given the access that many of these subjects required it seems clear that the photographer had some training or professional experience and was employed by the military. Nevertheless 170 of the images are clearly his own personal vernacular photography thereby making the scope and extent of this group all the more remarkable. An excellent and sizable group of postwar Pacific photographs and an outstanding visual document of Okinawa soon after one of the bloodiest and most desperate island campaigns of the war. unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis3 000,00 $US≈ 2 538,30 €

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