other half of pennant

other half of pennant

Admiral Sharp's items. I like the WW2 mini medals and the WW2 cribbage board and pieces in the little leather pouch with COMDR. USG SHARP, JR. impressed in gold. To think that he was on the South Pacific seas and possibly playing a buddy with this set!!

Sharp's 2 permanent citations for his DSM's.

To my knowledge it represents "group" according to what I've researched. It's small, under 3 feet, so I'm unsure of how it was used.

I'm working right now and haven't had to time to photograph his dress jacket with ribbons. It's nice in that it's named and has instructions on how to apply the ribbons and for fitting.

okay, here we go. I found a lot of his medals and other items for sale on ebay. some medal boxes are for sale also

 

Admiral Sharp Items

I'm so cal picker, and you're mistaken. I'm selling (3) empty plaque / presentation boxes and an extra China Service medal that belonged to Blake, however, there are other people who are selling the foreign decorations. Look more closely before you post something like you just did.

sorry :pinch: :pinch:

I photographed a bunch of large framed photos and tbought that was the end of it, but then I found an envelope full of what at first looked like just invitations:

 

 

Well there were invitations, but also Christmas cards and a thank you note from Jacqueline Kennedy

 

 

That reference to John is of course for JFK Jr. - the father having been dead for a few years by then. Jackie Kennedy had a "franking"privilege so instead of a stamp, the envelope has her signature:

 

 

And speaking of envelopes, look who's name is on the return address label for this Christmas card:

 

Here's a couple more things related to the Kennedys:

 

 

These are from LBJ, who sent flowers to the Sharps in Hawaii:

 

 

 

This card is from Maxwell D Taylor, one time CO of 101st Airborne Division, Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who became Ambassador to South Vietnam. There's also a note from his wife mentioning a coup in South Vietnam:

 

This card is from South Vietnam's last president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

 

 

This is from Nguyễn Cao Kỳ who was president from 65-67 then became Thiệu's vice-president.

 

 

Here's some others from notable Asian leaders:

 

 

 

 

 

Well, this wraps it up - the collection of signed photos from other officers and his retirement document:

 

 

 

This is Admiral Frank George Fahrion:, addressed to Sharp when Fahrion was Rear Admiral and Sharp was Captain:

 

 

 

 

This one just signed it "JP" - any ideas on who it is?[

 

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This is George W. Anderson, CNO and Sharp's boss during the Cuban missile crisis.

 

 

 

Well that's it - I didn't show everything - there are more documents and various photos including some snapshots from retired life. There is also box full of official portraits, color and black-and-white:

 

 

Oh yeah - fresh never used covers for his book:

 

 

This appears to be from the editing of his book. It's a map covered by a piece of onionskin paper which lets you see the document beneath: in this case it was used to mark corrections for the map legends:

 

"J.P." is Gen John P. McConnell, USAF Chief of Staff, 1965-1969.

"J.P." is Gen John P. McConnell, USAF Chief of Staff, 1965-1969.

 

Thanks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._McConnell

okay, here we go. I found a lot of his medals and other items for sale on ebay. some medal boxes are for sale also

 

Admiral Sharp Items

 

 

Wow !! The Admiral sure owned a LOT of T.V. remote controllers !!

 

Vic

I have to say that the more I get into this the more I realize that Sharp was the perhaps the most influential admiral since WWII. I had been thinking of him as being commander of the Navy in the Pacific (CINCPACFLT), but as it dawned on me this morning, he was not Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet - he was Commander of ALL US forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) - basically he was a wartime theater commander, doing a job that, during WWII, was split between Adm. Nimitz, Gen. MacArthur and Gen. Spaatz (the PTO was unlike the ETO with its single supreme commander Eisenhower).

 

The Gulf of Tonkin incident happened two months after Sharp became CINCPAC in June 1964, but he was CINCPACFLT from 63 to 64. He was Commander In Chief Pacific until his retirement in summer 1968 after 41 years of service.

 

As Wikipedia notes, "After retiring from the Navy, Sharp was a critic of U.S. policy in the Vietnam War, lecturing frequently and writing articles. He wrote an article in Reader's Digest in 1969 titled We Could Have Won in Vietnam Long Ago, and in 1978 his book Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in Retrospect was published."

 

I have several copies of reprints of that Reader's Digest article:

 

 

And for those frequent lectures, he carried his own lectern:

 

 

Sharp and LBJ were not overly fond of each other, as I understand, so as we went through these things yesterday, we wondered whether LBJ himself had signed these two notes to Sharp in 1968 or whether he'd told his staff something like, "That SOB Admirlal? Let the machine sign them!"

 

 

 

The signatures are not identical so maybe LBJ himself did actually sign at least one of them:

 

Wow !! The Admiral sure owned a LOT of T.V. remote controllers !!

 

Vic

 

Yes, I noticed that when I did my Google and Ebay searches:

 

 

All his TV remotes aside .... Seeing the number of items that you got and the huge number of items that you didn't get, it appears that Admiral Sharp was a stand alone museum unto himself. Incredible!

Having those signatures are just as valuable as his personal items IMO... CONGRATS!!!

This is some absolutely AMAZING stuff...I don't think I've seen a better paper grouping come on the market in years. Really. This is astounding stuff!

 

Dave