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EISENHOWER, Dwight D Typed letter signed (“Dad”), as Command...

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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Typed letter signed (“Dad”), as Commander-in-Chief North Africa, to his son John Eisenhower (1922-2013). 1 page, 4to, Allied Force Headquarters stationery .
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Typed letter signed (“Dad”), as Commander-in-Chief North Africa, to his son John Eisenhower (1922-2013). 1 page, 4to, Allied Force Headquarters stationery . “WE HAVE GOT OFF TO A FAIR START AND I HOPE WE CAN KEEP GOING” Eisenhower tells his son at West Point about the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) three days previous, and revels in achieving a major combat command. “I can well imagine your astonishment when you read the Monday morning papers this week. We have got off to a fair start and I hope we can keep going. In any event, don’t worry about me and just continue to address your letters to London as you have always done. I have a Junior Aide there, whose sole job in life is to take care of my personal affairs.” Safe within the family privacy of this letter, Eisenhower shows a side of his personality—his ambition and pride in accomplishment—that he normally kept cloaked. “This is a fine Command and, of course, it is every soldier’s ambition to get command of something, even if it is only a platoon! I never once dreamed that my first big command would [be] an ‘Allied’ one and that I would have soldiers, sailors and airmen of two great countries under my direct control. I must say that it keeps a fellow stepping pretty rapidly to keep on top of the ball, but I try to keep a sense of humor and my feet on the ground.” The landings in French Morocco and Algeria met with minimal resistance from French Vichy forces. But six months of hard fighting in Lybia and Egypt followed before the Anglo-American forces drove the Germans out of Africa. John Eisenhower followed in his father’s footsteps at West Point, graduating in the class of 1944—on 6 June 1944. He served in both the Second World War and the Korean War, later becoming a respected military historian.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 13
Auktion:
Datum:
04.12.2014
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
4 December 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Typed letter signed (“Dad”), as Commander-in-Chief North Africa, to his son John Eisenhower (1922-2013). 1 page, 4to, Allied Force Headquarters stationery .
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Typed letter signed (“Dad”), as Commander-in-Chief North Africa, to his son John Eisenhower (1922-2013). 1 page, 4to, Allied Force Headquarters stationery . “WE HAVE GOT OFF TO A FAIR START AND I HOPE WE CAN KEEP GOING” Eisenhower tells his son at West Point about the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) three days previous, and revels in achieving a major combat command. “I can well imagine your astonishment when you read the Monday morning papers this week. We have got off to a fair start and I hope we can keep going. In any event, don’t worry about me and just continue to address your letters to London as you have always done. I have a Junior Aide there, whose sole job in life is to take care of my personal affairs.” Safe within the family privacy of this letter, Eisenhower shows a side of his personality—his ambition and pride in accomplishment—that he normally kept cloaked. “This is a fine Command and, of course, it is every soldier’s ambition to get command of something, even if it is only a platoon! I never once dreamed that my first big command would [be] an ‘Allied’ one and that I would have soldiers, sailors and airmen of two great countries under my direct control. I must say that it keeps a fellow stepping pretty rapidly to keep on top of the ball, but I try to keep a sense of humor and my feet on the ground.” The landings in French Morocco and Algeria met with minimal resistance from French Vichy forces. But six months of hard fighting in Lybia and Egypt followed before the Anglo-American forces drove the Germans out of Africa. John Eisenhower followed in his father’s footsteps at West Point, graduating in the class of 1944—on 6 June 1944. He served in both the Second World War and the Korean War, later becoming a respected military historian.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 13
Auktion:
Datum:
04.12.2014
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
4 December 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
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