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Time Remaining To Bid: 14 days 8 hours 11 mins. 41 secs.
Item Will Close On: Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5931905

Category: O82 - Personal Letters & Papers

HERB FISHER SIGNED PHOTOS AND PAPER GROUPING

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Herbert O. Fisher, a test pilot and a retired aviation executive of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He had worked for 14 years for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in engineering, flight testing, public relations and sales. As chief test pilot, Mr. Fisher tested more than 4,000 military aircraft and helped develop the reversible propeller for use as a brake. In World War II he went to the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations to train members of the Flying Tigers on C-46 transports and P-40 fighters. Although he was a civilian, Mr. Fisher flew scores of combat missions. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented him the Air Force Air Medal in 1944, making him the first living civilian to receive the honor.

Grouping consist of 22 pages with signed photos, magazine articles signed by him, hand written letter and signed, newspaper clippings, etc.

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