Bidspirit auction | SMITH RICHARD E.: (1918-2006) (x7)

SMITH RICHARD E.: (1918-2006) (x7) - SMITH RICHARD E.: (1918-2006) American fighter pilot with the United States Army Air Force during World War II who saw action in the Pacific and was credited with seven aerial victories. Small selection of four signed printed images (7.5 x 7 and smaller) by Smith, each evidently neatly removed from books or magazines, the different images showing him alongside his Japanese Sandman II P-38 aircraft, at the crash site of his aircraft in Papua New Guinea, etc., also including a four-page magazine article relating to Smith (signed twice), two different colour 5 x 3.5 photographs (unsigned, although both annotated in ink to the versos by Smith) and an A.L.S., Capt. Richard E. Smith , one page, 4to, Andalusia, Alabama, 23rd March n.y., to Paul, returning the photographs and hoping that he has signed them properly, remarking ´I get requests for my signature almost every week and have been since the ´70s. A lot of people are interested in the pilots and aircraft of WWII´ and further referring to his Japanese Sandman being removed from the jungle and taken to Sydney in Australia. A few minor faults, G to generally VG, 7