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Item Will Close On Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5932481

Category: O82 - Personal Letters & Papers

EDWARD "TED" TIMBERLAKE LT.GENERAL USAF SIGNED PHOTO

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General Timberlake is commander of the U.S. Air Force`s Continental Air Command which provides the active-duty Air Force with approximately 360,000 Air Force ready reservists and other support. 
He was born in Fort Hunt, Va., Nov. 10, 1909. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and was appointed a second lieutenant of Infantry June 11, 1931. 
Three months later he enrolled in the Air Corps Primary Flying School at Randolph Field, Texas, from which he graduated in June 1932. He then entered the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, completed the course in November 1932, and went to Luke Field, Hawaii, for service with the 72nd Bomb Squadron. The following January he transferred from the Infantry to the Air Corps. 
While at Luke Field, General Timberlake was assigned as engineering officer of the 40th Attack Squadron. In January 1935 he became a flying instructor at the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, and during the next five years instructed at Kelly and Brooks fields in pursuit, bombardment and observation aviation. He went to MacDill Field at Tampa, Fla., in July 1940, as adjutant of the 6th Bomb Squadron, and later its commanding officer. In February 1942 he became executive officer of the 98th Bomb Group at Barksdale Field, La., and later commanded the 93rd Bomb Group there. 
General Timberlake, who is known to his intimates as "Ted," retained command when the group deployed to England in January 1943. In recognition of General Timberlake`s leadership and the affection in which he was held by his personnel, this group became known as "Ted`s Flying Circus." The combat record of the "93rd" in World War II is a perpetual monument to the daring and bravery of its heroic airmen. In December 1944, he assumed command of the 20th Combat Bomb Wing in the European theater. General Timberlake was one of the planners of the famed Ploesti raids.

8x10" size color photo of Timberlake in uniform, signed with dedication.

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