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Time Remaining To Bid: 17 days 21 hours 58 mins. 1 secs.
Item Will Close On Monday, September 08, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST
Lot Number:
5937459
Category:
L53 - Estate & Personal Collections
MAJOR HAROLD E. HARTNEY (PILOT) 1ST PURSUIT GROUP 1919 DATED CITATION
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Harold Evans Hartney Lieutenant Colonel, Service Royal Flying Corps, United States Army Air Service, Units 20 RFC - 27th Aero, 185th Aero, 1st Pursuit Group with 7-Victories. Hartney entered the RFC at Norwich. The following day, he survived a near fatal first flight in a Maurice Farman longhorn. By the following year he was grasping the stick of an F.E.2, flying reconnaissance missions over the Western Front. After scoring 5 confirmed victories, he was shot down for the fourth time on the afternoon of 14 February 1917. In his autobiography, Up And At `Em, Hartney claimed Manfred von Richthofen shot him down that afternoon, northeast of Zillebecke Lake. On 21 September 1917, Hartney was promoted to Major and ordered back to Toronto to assume command of the American 27th Aero Squadron. As a member of the United States Air Service, he scored two more victories by the end of the war. In 1923, Hartney became a citizen of the United States and published an autobiography, "Up and at `Em," in 1940. 14.5x10.5" size citation named to Major Hartney for Distinguished and Exceptional Gallantry at St.Mihiel,France on 12Sept.1918 in the operations of the AEF Awarded on 27March 1919`. For more information on this collection go to http://www.manions.com/block.htm Condition: 7
Opening Bid Amount:
$30
Current Bid Amount:
$206
Total Bids:
20
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