Search Results: WWII from The FW Collections

2 page letter recounting personal war experience and describing his countenance as he lies in the prone position in the Duty NCO's sack. This letter has been highly talked about and is held with great pride

rare7th War Loan poster using a painting by C.C. Beall based on Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of the US marines second flag raising on Iwo Jima ...

84th Infantry Division in the Battle for Germany.1. Book, 84th Infantry Division in the Battle for Germany, Viking Press, 1946. Book has 260 pages with history, maps, photos, paintings of the 84th Infantry Division during WWII. Appendix's include commendations, citations, and commanders. Has dust jacket in plastic cover. Dust jacket use wear and tear associated with age.Comes complete with book, roster, mini pamphlet and hard cover sleeve.

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article from national geographic

An article from National Geographic Magazine reprinted in whole. in Lincoln, NE

The American Army overcame and disarmed the resisting parts of the German garrison. The inhabitants of Plzen prepared and printed this booklet to express gratitude and to serve as a souvenir to strengthen their friendship.,Filled with pictures and a touching tribute. handwritten inscription"Sorry I couldn't get one with my pictures in it.Din" written by the gift giver.

National Geographic article. Fullerton PS.

An Army Dog aids a unit in an exigency produced in Japan May have been in Japanese newspaper

Purchased online
Plastic on picture hides colorization

Used book in very good condition. Some cover wear, pages clean and unmarked edges of pages on bottom marked with magic marker

some tearsAttack attack attack Buy war bonds. 1942. Author: Ferdinand Warren. Publisher: GPO

Poster WWII, Because somebody talked, Heyman, Wesley
WWII motivational poster
Color poster shows a sad cocker spaniel with its head resting on sailor's collar on back of a blue chair. On the wall behind the chair hangs a "Gold Star" service flag with a red border, white center and yellow star in the middle. A gold star on a service flag signifies a family member who has died in war.
Heyman, Wesley 1944
Purchased: private seller

desireableCommercial artist Wesley Heyman produced this work that almost did not make it into production. At the time Heyman was working on the print, a government-approved group of commerical artists and OWI formed a cooperative agreement in which OWI would tell the artists what type of posters were needed and the artists would produce them. OWI sought to more tightly control the message the government wanted to share. Artists who were not part of this "Pool of Artists" generally had their unsolicited work rejected. Heyman was not part of the pool, but he submittedhis work anyway. Not only did OWI and the Pool of Artists accept Heyman's work, but they printed it in magazines and newspapers, as well as on the walls of government and corporate office buildings. OWI received thousands of requests from private and public institutions around the country for reproductions. OWI personnel estimated that they reproduced millions of this poster and that it "shattered all records" for previous poster… Read More

625 pages The book is a first-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany as witnessed by the William L. Shirer, a radio reporter for CBS. He covered Germany until the Nazi press censors made it impossible for him to report objectively to his listeners in the United States. Feeling increasingly uncomfortable, he left the country. The identities of many of Shirer's German sources were disguised to protect these people from retaliation by the German secret police.The book, originally published on June 20, 1941, almost six months before Germany declared war on the United States, was "the first attempt by a big-name American journalist to shed light on what was really happening in Nazi Germany.CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s—specifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany.

Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York, 1944. Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Grattan Condon (illustrator). First Edition. Illustrated blue cloth with black lettering. Illustrated jacket has large chip on back and some chipping at head and foot of spine

Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1957. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine No dust Jacket. Signed

The Dogs of War (1974) is a war novel by Frederick Forsyth featuring a small group of European mercenary soldiers hired by a British industrialist to depose the government of the fictional African country of Zangaro. 400 pages. Made into a Film.

injured soldierAmerican WWII Bond Poster 'Doing All You Can, Brother?' by Robert Smullyan Sloan, 1943. $350.00.

submarineFire Away! Buy Extra Bonds. 1944. Author: Georges Schreiber. Publisher: Date Published: 1944. Subject: World War II.

fold in middle journalFor All the Brave, Buy War Bonds. Artist David Margolis (born 1911)