MISSION WITH LEMAY. MY STORY BY GENERAL CURTIS E. LEMAY WITH MACKINLAY KANTOR.

Published by Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965.

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Later printing (per lack of edition/printing statement upon copyright page per Doubleday & Company practice) SIGNED BY AUTHOR GENERAL LEMAY. xiv, 581 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with light soiling and slight toning; a few nicks; minor tears, and some bumping at edges; front flap has two small stains at top right and retains publisher's printed price; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth; spine decorated with bright gilt and red stamping; several unobtrusively slender patches of discoloration at boards' top and bottom edges; two small black stains at rear board's bottom center. Text block's fore-edge lightly toned; several small stains to top edge with a few leaves fractionally affected at top margins; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in a very good+ dust jacket with Curtis E. LeMay's blue ink signature on the front flyleaf. With blue endpapers, Foreword, four sections of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, and Index. Autobiography of legendary US Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay. Although without any ownership marks, the book was acquired from the estate of WWII and Korea veteran Colonel Clark Olmsted Thornton, PhD. (1917-2004) of Northport, Alabama which, in turn, provides a provenance of connection via career overlap to General LeMay. Joining the Army Air Corps prior to Pearl Harbor, Thornton saw action in Africa and Europe participating in four WWII airborne invasions including D-Day and served as Air Advisor to 82nd Airborne Division commander Major General James Gavin. Awarded ten major battle stars, five oak leaf clusters, the Belgian Fourragere, the Dutch Lanyard, and a Presidential Citation, Thornton's career included two tours at the Pentagon and staff assignments to the Secretary of Defense as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff before concluding his thirty-year career as the Professor of Aerospace Studies and head of Air Force ROTC at the University of Alabama. …

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Title
MISSION WITH LEMAY. MY STORY BY GENERAL CURTIS E. LEMAY WITH MACKINLAY KANTOR.
Author
LeMay, Curtis E. [Curtis Emerson LeMay], 1906-1990, with MacKinlay Kantor [Benjamin McKinlay Kantor], 1904-1977.
Publisher
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965.
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David Hallinan, Bookseller

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DAVID HALLINAN, BOOKSELLER - specializing in out-of-print, uncommon, and scarce books in all subjects. Mailing address is PO BOX 463, COLUMBUS, MS 39703. Inventory available for inspection at a local antique mall generally from 10am-5pm Tuesday thru Saturday.

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David Hallinan
David Hallinan, Bookseller
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