Autograph Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents
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Nov 30, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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BARBER REX T: (1917-2001) American Colonel with the United States Army Air Forces, a fighter pilot best known as a member of the top secret mission to intercept the aircraft carrying Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in April 1943. Small selection of three signed postcard photographs by Barber, one depicting him seated in the cockpit of his aircraft and another showing him, in later years, standing alongside Japanese fighter pilot Kenji Yanagiya (who was escorting Yamamoto in 1943), together with a further four printed images, each neatly removed from books or magazines, of varying sizes, each signed by Barber and depicting aircraft in flight etc. Several of the images are colour and all are signed by Barber in blue or black inks with his name alone in later years. Also including one unsigned postcard photograph. Generally VG, 8
