Lot 88
Montgomery, Bernard, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Letter signed ("B.L. Montgomery / General / Eighth Army") on an Air Mail Letter Card, 1 page, 7½ x 4 5/8 in., Eighth Army Sicily, August 15 [1943]. To Louis Di Lucca in Brooklyn, New York, thanking him for an encouraging airgraph and writing, "Together with our American Allies we have reached the final stage of the Sicilian campaign." With "Passed by Censor" stamp and signature. The Allied invasion of Sicily ended two days later, on August 17, and opened the way for the invasion of Italy. Together with a typed copy of Montgomery's "Farewell Message to the Eighth Army" signed "Montgomery of Alamein / F.M.," 1½ pages, no place, no date. An emotional message "to my beloved Eighth Army" as he left to take command of the 21st Army Group which consisted of all Allied ground forces that would take part in Operation Overlord, under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection, Manuscripts and Autographs, June 27, 2015, lot 369 (sold for $650.00 but not paid).
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