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Time Remaining To Bid: 6 days 19 hours 52 mins. 32 secs.
Item Will Close On: Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5936005

Category: L53 - Estate & Personal Collections

BRIGADIER GENERAL BENJAMIN S. KELSEY DRESS SHOULDER BOARD FROM HIS ESTATE

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Brig.General Ben Kelsey Retired Jan. 1, 1956.   Died March 3, 1981. General Kelsey was fighter project officer in the Engineering Section, and in addition participated in various phases of blind landing and instrument flying development. From May to July 1940 he served as assistant military attache for air at London, England, and then returned to Wright Field as chief of the Pursuit Branch in the Production Engineering Section. In the spring of 1942 he was attached to the Eighth Fighter Command at Dow Field, Maine, to assist in preparing for Trans-Atlantic ferry flights, and the following July he flew in the first ferry flight of fighters across the North Atlantic to England. Returning to the States in September 1942, he resumed his former position as chief of the Pursuit Branch, and the following July he was named chief of the Flight Research Branch, Flight Test Division. 
Going to England in November 1943, General Kelsey was deputy chief of staff of the Ninth Fighter Command, and the following February he was appointed chief of the Operation Engineering Section of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters there. In February 1945 he was assigned to the Materiel Division at Air Corps Headquarters. For more information go to http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6030

This dress shoulder board was obtained from Brig.General Ben Kelsey by Mr.Block in 1979. Shoulder board shows some mothing.

For more information on this collection go to http://www.manions.com/block.htm  Condition: 6

Opening Bid Amount: $13

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