HISTORIC BATTLE SERIES

As above but signed by Major Gunther Rall Knight's Cross with Swords. Luftwaffe big Ace. Total of 621 missions and 275 victories. Details enclosed.

As above but signed by Major Paul Zorner Knight's Cross with Oakleaves. Luftwaffe night fighter pilot. 108 missions 59 night victories.

8 Nov 72 - Gibraltar with Gibraltar 4sp 1p Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry stamp. Operation Torch - 30th Anniversary of North African Landings.

As above but also postmarked 8 Nov 92 Gibraltar 4p. HMS Hesperus stamp. Signed by Flt.Lt. S.P. Moston DFM 285 Sqn. Tripoli 1943. 20 NUMBERED & ISSUED.

As above but signed Admiral of The Fleet The Rt.Hon. Lord Lewin KG GBC LVO DSC.

As above but signed by 1st Lieut. Erhard Nippa Knight's Cross. Fighter bomber and close support sorties against ground and shipping targets. 30 missions.

As above but signed by Franz Oswald Knight's Cross. One of the Luftwaffe's most experienced anti-tank pilots. Flew HS129.

23 Oct 72 - El Alamein - 30th Anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein. Black carried in Chieftain tank. signed by Harry Blood Royal Army 7th Armoured Division (approx. 18 months on Western Desert). Details enclosed. 9 NUMBERED & ISSUED.

as above but Signed by John Stace. Sapper Royal Engineers Theatres of operations Eqypt ,Libya ,Tunisia, Italy, Germany. Certified Copy no of 9

As above but signed by Driver Stanley Coley R.A.S.C. 524 Coy 50th Northumbrian Infantry Division. Theatres of Operation: El Alamein Invasion of Sicily and Italy. The Second Front Normandy Holland Belgium.

As above but signed by Charles F. Hirst Lance Cpl. Yorke and Lancasters Sherwood Foresters. Theatres of Operation: Tunisia Germany (written a book on his wartime experiences - A Green Hill Far Away).

23 Oct 72 - El Alamein - 30th Anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein. Black carried in Chieftain tank. signed by Lance Corporal Peter Hodgkinson Royal Army Corp Royal Engineers Theatres of operation Gt Britain, Egypt,Lybia,Syria,Italy. Certified Copy of 9 .

As above but signed by Private Harry G Tooby Infantry . Regiments Kings Own R R Loyal Regiment Worcester Regiment Theatres of Operation: Sudan Eritrea Belgium,Egypt Certified copy of 9

Personally signed by Capt. Siefried Koitschka, Knight's Cross holder. Commandant 47, U-616. German cachet plus insert. After the commander training course in the 26th Flotilla, he became commander of the school boat U-7. But in December of the same year he took command of his own front boat, the Type VIIC U-boat U-616. After one patrol in the North Atlantic he managed to break through the Straits of Gibraltar in May 1943. After six patrols in the Mediterranean, where he sank a US destroyer in October 1943 and damaged two ships in May 1944 for a total of more than 17,000 tons (he claimed more sinkings, but they were not confirmed successes), he left Toulon on 30 April for his last patrol. Two weeks later, east of Cartagena, Spain, one of the longest U-boat hunting operations of the war took place. After torpedoing two ships, Kptlt. Koitschka with U-616 was located by US destroyers on 14 May, 1944. The next three days U-616 was attacked by the destroyer and also British Wellington aircraft before being forced to surface on the 17 May. All the crew survived the scuttling of the U-boat.

Siegfried Koitschka spent more than two years in Allied captivity before he was released in June 1946. Certified Copy No 8 of 45

8 May 73 - Tunis - 30th Anniversary of the capture of Tunis and Bizerta. Signed by 1st Lieut. F. Korner Knight's Cross. 250 missions 36 victories in North Africa.

As above but signed by Oberse Ralph von Rettberg Knight's Cross holder. Commander 11/2G -6 - led it against France and England. 200 missions 8 aerial victories. 12 destroyed on the ground.

As HB7a But Signed by the Pilot Lt Cdr T E Sargent RD RNR.

3 Apr 74 - Alta - 30th Anniversary of Fleet Air Arm attack on Tirpitz. Flown in Bell helicopter of No.339 Sqn. RNAF. Blue cachet. Red helicopter mail cachet and 2 backstamps.

"6 Jun 1974 BFPS 1443 30th Anniversary Special postmark & 6th June 1994 Portsmouth 50th Anniversay Special Postmark. 30th Anniversary Operation Overlord . Cover depicts Hawker Typhoon of 245 Sqn & HMS Belfast. Flown from Biggin hill aerodrome via Isle of White and Cherbourg Airport over Utah and Omaha landing beaches in Cherokee.Pilot Lt Cdr T E Sargent.

As above but 5½p Churchill stamp.

23 Nov 74 - Thorshaun postmark on 60c Danish stamp - 35th Anniversary of the 1st Sea Battle of World War II. Red cachet DanAir A/S. Last scheduled flight Thorshaun-Kirkwall in Fokker Friendship aircraft. Signed by Luftwaffe pilot 1st Lieutenant Erhard Nippa fighter bomber against British coastal shipping.

Signed by Flt Lt M F Anderson 604 Sqn Battle of Britain Certified copy No of 11. Died 1993