arclight Posted June 17, 2009 Share #51 Posted June 17, 2009 R.I.P, Pappy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted June 17, 2009 Share #52 Posted June 17, 2009 R.I.P, Pappy. Sweet! -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABrangerjoe Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share #53 Posted June 17, 2009 Holy smokes! :w00t: Those are some awesome ones! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted June 17, 2009 Share #54 Posted June 17, 2009 This one is really special to me. I read Currahee when I was 8 years old and re-read the book over 10 times since then. It is one of my all-time favorites. I really wish I didn't let go the old 1967 edition of the book..... Anyways, When I first read the book, I wanted so bad to retrace the route Donald took as shown on the map in the book. I was extremely fortunate to do so back in the late 1990's while stationed in the UK. It was about a 15 mile hike as the crow flies. I E-Mailed Donald before the trip with a request for advice, of which he was very kind to do so. After my trip, I was E-Mailing some photos of the walk to a friend of Donald's, Mike. In return, I got this book in the mail. How thrilled was I!!!!! A dream come true. -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABrangerjoe Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share #55 Posted June 17, 2009 That's amazing! And so are all the others, I just finished reading Currahee a few months ago (and all of the other books) They're great! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Got da Penny Posted June 17, 2009 Share #56 Posted June 17, 2009 Thrift Store find ... ONE DOLLAR. --------> back in 1994. Im thinking "No Big Deal" .......... Until, ** I Turned the SECOND Page ** :w00t: Carey PS ............ Hows this one ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckster Posted June 18, 2009 Share #57 Posted June 18, 2009 This past October my wife and I visited Pall Mall, Tennessee to attend the 90th anniversary celebration of Sgt. Alvin C. York's heroic actions in Chatel Chehery, France during W.W. I. We had a great time and picked up this biography autographed by the author, along with the three surviving York children. (also a pic of us with Andrew York in the York family home/ museum) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APO472 Posted June 18, 2009 Share #58 Posted June 18, 2009 Great suff everyone! Kreigs...Your 101st signatures are like a trip down memory lane for me. Many of those Great Warriors are no longer with us as I am sure you know. Currahee! Jake Powers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeb137 Posted June 18, 2009 Share #59 Posted June 18, 2009 ...I would have to say this is my favorite signed book. A hard to find 1986 first edition hard cover of The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez. ..... I met Roy in Natalia TX in 2002 or 2003 when the VN Wall Memorial was on local display. Natalia is just an intersection really, just South of San Antonio. He was very talkative and a really nice guy. He sat at a table with movie posters and signing autographs. Jon B Newaygo MI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USARV72 Posted June 29, 2009 Share #60 Posted June 29, 2009 Although not the Author he wrote the forward. One of my most prized WWII books. This one was a "cheap store" find but still pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegsmodell Posted June 30, 2009 Share #61 Posted June 30, 2009 As promised a few more signed books from the bunker. Here is a signed volume from former CIA operative Frank Holober regarding a segment of the covert war in Korea - Raiders of the China Coast. Good stuff. First edition hardback signed to an admirer in 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegsmodell Posted June 30, 2009 Share #62 Posted June 30, 2009 Signed page. Note the red stamped Chinese imprint from the author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegsmodell Posted June 30, 2009 Share #63 Posted June 30, 2009 Back to the Vietnam conflict. Signed copy of The Doom Pussy (you have to love the name) in hardback with dust jacket from Elaine Shepard. I love this one, great book. If memory serves me Bob Chatt has a great, signed copy of this with even a patch glued into the cover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegsmodell Posted June 30, 2009 Share #64 Posted June 30, 2009 Author's signature page. A great read here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegsmodell Posted June 30, 2009 Share #65 Posted June 30, 2009 Last one for now. The standard history of the 6th Army's Alamo Scouts - Silent Warriors of World War II - The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines by Lance Q. Zedric. Another double signed volume here. Signed by the author to an admirer in 2003 and also by Alamo Scout Corporal Conrad M. Vineyard. A great book and still available .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegsmodell Posted June 30, 2009 Share #66 Posted June 30, 2009 Author Zedric's signed page to a fellow veteran in 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriegsmodell Posted June 30, 2009 Share #67 Posted June 30, 2009 As mentioned in the first post regarding this volume, the signature page from Alamo Scout Conrad Vineyard. Corporal Vineyard was in training with Alamo Scout Class 9 in 1945 at the time of the Japanese surrender. I really like these double signed tomes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill in VA Posted July 1, 2009 Share #68 Posted July 1, 2009 Ok, here are a few of mine... WWII veterans SGT Bob Slaughter, D/116 Regt., Omaha Beach veteran, given to my Uncle Walter (AOM2 USS Block Island CVE21) Veterans of the Anzio Beachhead: SGT William D Farmer, D/1st Ranger Bn. ("Darby's Rangers"), POW SSGT Ed Hess, 135th Inf. Regt PVT Nelson Snyder, K/30th Inf. Regt. TSGT Morris Snyder, L/7th Inf. Regt., POW SFC Charles Phallen, 601 TD Bn. PFC Robert Dodge, AT Bn./15th Inf. Regt. CPL CLyder Easter, 3ID CPL Edsel Beaty, 4th Armored Div.* (not an Anzio veteran, but in attendance at reunion. CPL Beaty was present at the liberation of Buchenwald) Richard Killblane (author) and SGT Jake McNeice, 506 PIR Gottfried Dulias, JG53 (or not...depending on who you ask.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill in VA Posted July 1, 2009 Share #69 Posted July 1, 2009 One more from WWII... MAJ Cecil Ward White, 92ID Vietnam War... 1LT Lewis B. Puller, USMC originally given to my brother COL Jimmie Butler, 23TASS (call sign "NAIL 12", re:, CAPT Lee D. Harley, 23TASS, call sign "GOMBEY 19" 18 May 1966 KIA/BNR.) COL Wesley Fox, USMC, Medal of Honor recipient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill in VA Posted July 1, 2009 Share #70 Posted July 1, 2009 Slightly diverging from our main focus, but still relevant, I believe... Secret warriors, Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton, CIA retired Tom Clancy Stephen Coonts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arclight Posted July 1, 2009 Share #71 Posted July 1, 2009 One more from WWII... MAJ Cecil Ward White, 92ID Vietnam War... 1LT Lewis B. Puller, USMC originally given to my brother COL Jimmie Butler, 23TASS (call sign "NAIL 12", re:, CAPT Lee D. Harley, 23TASS, call sign "GOMBEY 19" 18 May 1966 KIA/BNR.) COL Wesley Fox, USMC, Medal of Honor recipient Holy Macaroni! Those are truly prizes! Wanna trade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted August 14, 2009 Share #72 Posted August 14, 2009 I have far too many signed books to list them all or display them. Here's one shelf of my many book cases of them. All of these were signed by the authors to me by name. There two copies of Band of Brothers, one of which was signed by almost everyone who was still alive in the mid 90s. I had forgotten I even had this until recently because other than Ambrose, few of these guys were household names at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwc271 Posted August 15, 2009 Share #73 Posted August 15, 2009 I have a Sgt York biography signed by his son George E. York on 3-10-06. My brother got it for me in Tenn. while he was passing through. He met York's son in the store where he bought the book and had him sign and personalize it for me. When the clerk saw he was buying this book she pointed out Mr. York to him and introduced my brother to him. It is something i will cherish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogfacedsoldier Posted August 16, 2009 Share #74 Posted August 16, 2009 Signed Special Forces of the United States Army - 1952/1982 by LtC Ian D. W. Sutherland. Long out of print from R. James Bender Publishing and perhaps still the best one volume USSF reference. I have several other items attributed to the now deceased Sutherland as well. Sutherland served in MACVSOG OP-34 and OP-80. I knew Sutherland, he was assistant prosecutng attorney in my hometown Cape Girardeau, Mo. Someone stole his book out of the local library. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korea drab Posted August 16, 2009 Share #75 Posted August 16, 2009 This is my only(so far) autographed book! Distance is the main problem.I contact this year Sagt Jack Carty about his book. Flame dragons and got email response!!!!!! Yes he is over 80 but as an retired sport reporter very active in comunications..... I am proud owner of this book.Vet and cooautor is getting harder to find.Not to mention i fully identify with their figth! Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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