GENERAL OMAR N. BRADLEY - INSCRIBED SPEECH SIGNED CIRCA 1948 - HFSID 283823
Price: $2,250.00
OMAR BRADLEY
A bound copy of his Memorial Day Address (1948), inscribed and signed to his
longtime secretary, Mary Pitcairn, by America's last five-star general
Speech inscribed and signed: "To Miss Mary Pitcairn/With appreciation
for/your loyal and/untiring assistance/Omar N. Bradley", 5p, 6x9.
Leather-bound, soft cover copy of his Memorial Day Address, titled "That We
Might Learn to Live as Bravely as They Died", Longmeadow, Massachusetts, 1948.
Inscribed and signed on third free end page.
Omar N. Bradley (1893-1981), a corps commander in North Africa and Sicily
(1943), commanded of the U.S. First Army, which landed at Utah and Omaha
beaches, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944. In August 1944, he became the
Commander of the 12th Army Group, the largest force ever commanded on the
field. He headed the new Veterans Administration (1945-1948). On
September 20, 1950, Bradley was promoted to Five-Star General of the Army,
and would be the last surviving general of 5-star rank. From 1950 to
1953, he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Lacking the arrogance
and ostentation of some other generals, Bradley became known as "the
soldier's general." Mary Pitcairn, a Red Cross Nurse in World War II,
followed the Twelfth Army Group across France and into Germany (1944-1945).
After the war, she served as secretary to General Bradley, first at the Veterans
Administration and then in the Pentagon. Leather chipped away from spine,
leaving book only loosely bound. Corners worn but intact. Inside pages lightly
toned, with no creases or other damage.
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