Anthony Mcauliffe (9 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 65 pages. Poems by Rene Char, Paul Muldoon, Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, Tara Bergin, Patrick McGuinness, Marina Tsvetaeva, Christine Marendon, Jan Wagner, Alex Houen, John Clegg, Ed Kendall, D.W. Brydon, Michael Farrell, Stanley Moss, John Wedgwood Clarke, Gerry Croft, Nick Telfer Paul Muldoon talks to Adam Crothers John McAuliffe on Yeats and the 'Irish mode'Stephen Burt on liberalism and American poetry Anthony Rudolf remembers Octavio Paz (U.P.).

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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Two contemporaneous WWII typed circular letters, December 1944. Two original wartime typed orders/ morale circulars, both issued during the Battle of the Bulge, addressed to troops defending Bastogne, one signed by Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, acting commander, 101st Airborne Division, and the other signed by /s/Roberts, praising the men of Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division. First letter: "Airborne - Merry Christmas", Headquarters 101st Airborne Division, Office of the Division Commander, 24 December 1944. A famous morale message recounting the German encirclement of Bastogne, reproducing verbatim the German surrender demand of 22 December 1944 and McAuliffe's legendary one-word reply - "NUTS!". The letter celebrates the stand of the 101st Airborne and attached units, frames the defense of Bastogne as a defining historical moment, and closes with McAuliffe's typed signature- "/s/McAuliffe, MCAULFFE, Commanding. Second letter: Commendation letter to the officers and men of CCB, 10th Armored Division, praising their role in stopping repeated German attacks in freezing conditions and noting the imminent relief of Bastogne. Typed signed "/s/ Roberts", with explicit referene to cooperation with the 101st Airborne Division. Both documents are typed on original WWII-era Myriad Onion Skin paper, a lightweight stock widely used by U.S. Army headquarters for field correspondence. The presence of this watermark is consistent with wartime examples. Wartime paper stock, stapled as issued, with expected age toning and handling wear but fully legible throughout. The two letters are period originals intended for unit circulation. Everything-paper, type, formatting, content and context- all aligns with a wartime unit-issued circular. The documents are historically significant. The defense of Bastogne and McAuliffe's "NUTS!" reply are among the most iconic episodes of the Second World War. Original wartime documents directly quoting or circulating the "NUTS!" message are scarce, especially when preserved in complete, readable form and accompanied by a related frontline commendation tying the 10th Armored Division to the relief effort. Condition: Very good overall; light toning, folds and staple marks consistent with field use. No losses; text crisp. Ships unmatted and unframed.

No binding. Condition: Good. Typed Letter Signed, to Ashley T. Cole, July 11, 1946, USS Mt. McKinley, Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, California; on Joint Task Force One stationery. 1 p., 8 x 10 1/2 in. In this brief letter, General A. C. McAuliffe agrees to inscribe a copy of a unit history of the 103rd Infantry Division for the New York attorney and autograph collector Ashley T. Cole after he returns to Washington from atomic tests in the Pacific Ocean. This letter was written between the test denotations of the fourth and fifth atomic bombs ever exploded.Unit historians Ralph Mueller and Jerry Turk wrote Report after Action: The Story of the 103rd Infantry Division with illustrations by artist Bill Barker, and it was published in 1945. Because McAuliffe led the 103rd through the end of the war in Europe, Cole wanted to get his autograph on the brief volume. Excerpt"Your request that I inscribe a few lines and my signature in your copy of 'Report After Action' was forwarded and reached me yesterday. As you see, I am busily engaged in the tests of the atomic bomb. The second test is tentatively scheduled for July 25th, so I hope to be back in Washington during the first week of August."I shall be glad to accede to your request but suggest that you wait until my return."Historical BackgroundOn January 11, 1946, the United States government established Joint Task Force One and began gathering ships and resources to complete Operation Crossroads. The mission was to test atomic weapons on target vessels. By June, organizers had assembled more than one hundred ships, scores of aircraft, and more than 42,000 servicemen around Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The U.S. Navy wanted to know if atomic bombs had made surface fleets obsolete. Could ships survive the blast and still be effective?The Marshall Islands consisted of 29 coral atolls located in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia, with a combined population of over 52,000. When authorities selected Bikini as the test site, they forcibly relocated the 167 people living on the island to another island 125 miles away and told them that they could eventually return.On July 1, 1946, Shot Able, a 23-kiloton bomb was detonated 520 feet above the target fleet at anchor. All of the target ships had sailed to Bikini with full crews, but the crews were removed to an area 22 miles away for the test. The bomb missed its target, the USS Nevada but did sink five ships, including two troop transports, two destroyers, and a surrendered Japanese cruiser.Shot Baker, a bomb of the same type, exploded on July 25, but it was suspended 90 feet below a ship in the center of the fleet, making it the first underwater atomic explosion. The blast shot an estimated 2 million tons of water in a massive column into the sky. In the wake of the shockwave and falling water, nine ships sank.Although Shot Able did not leave a large amount of radiation on the ships, Shot Baker spread a huge amount of radioactive material across the island and the target ships, so much that the organizers canceled Shot Charlie and evacuated the crews.Anthony C. "Nuts" McAuliffe (1898-1975) was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1918. Assigned to field artillery, he graduated from the Artillery School in 1920. He remained in the Army and gained promotion to the rank of captain by 1935. He graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1940. He gained promotion to lieutenant colonel in the supply division and supervised the development of new technology such as the bazooka and the jeep. Brigadier General McAuliffe commanded the artillery for the 101st Airborne Division and parachuted into Normandy on D-Day in 1944. Temporarily in command of the 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge, McAuliffe and his troops were besieged by a larger force of Germans at Bastogne, Belgium. When the German general demanded his surrender, McAuliffe responded with the answe. (See website for full description). Typed Letter Signed.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. McAULIFFE, ANTHONY. (1898-1975). Brigadier General of the U.S. Army during World War II; commander of the 101st Airborne Division while defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, and is celebrated for his one-word reply to the German surrender ultimatum: "Nuts!" Choice Autograph Sentiment Signed, '' 'Nuts', A.C. McAuliffe, General, U.S. Army (ret.)'', on a 12mo. slip of paper. [Approx 3 x 4 ½ inches]. In very fine condition.