douglass white ruby jane (1 resultados)

Four pieces. 1st -- 4to. 9.25 x 12.25 in. [188 pp.] Colour maps, and photo illustrations throughout, some full page. Embossed blue publisher's calf, Divisional insignia and lettering in red & gold, & green (minor bumping to corners, slightly shaken), still VG copy; 2nd -- Oblong atlas folio. 1 colour pictorial map, sized 25 x 19.5 in., printed in 4 colours, depicting the route of the 42nd across Europe (minor creasing, thumbing, edgewear, couple minor holes), still a G copy, now shrink--wrapped on archival foam core; 3rd - Oblong folio. 19 x 12.75 in. Double-page broadside sheet music score, shrink-wrapped on foam core (minor creasing, edgewear); 4th - 9 x 11 in. 1 broadside sheet music score, shrink-wrapped on foam core (minor creasing), still a VG set. First editions of four uncommon souvenir pieces for the famed 42nd Infantry Division during World War II, who is best remembered as one of the three liberating divisions for the Dachau Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945. Reactivated in July, 1943, the original nickname "Rainbow Division" was coined by Douglas MacArthur, as it was drawn from National Guards of 26 States and the District of Columbia in 1917, and in December, 1944 they landed in the French port of Marseille. By mid-December the 42nd had advanced North into Alsace and fought the German Army ear Strasbourg. In march, 1945, they crossed the Siegfried Line in the Hardt Mountains, where there was hard fighting at Hatten. During the fighting against the last major German offensive, a 242nd Infantry Congressional Medal of Honor winner repulsed several attacks. This Divisional History includes a number of graphic photos of their entry into Dachau, and together with the 45th Infantry, and the 20th Armored Division they helped liberate over 30,000 prisoners from the Camp, as well as those trapped on trains after being sent from Buchenwald, and other concentration camps. The map created by MacKechnie (1923-2012) was produced only for his fellow soldiers, not for publication, and fought with the 42nd Infantry during the Rainbow Division campaigns, including a number of humorous figures for his "Cartograph," although SS Skull & Crossbones for Dachau. Jane Douglass was a WAC officer during World War II, music educator, and songwriter, who wrote many songs during World War II to promote the WAC's and other Army Divisions. Captain Douglass commanded the first all-woman Special Service company. Worldcat locates 3 copies of the pictorial map (NYPL, TX A&M, WI Vet. Mus. Res. Ctr); No copies located of either of the Jane Douglass songs.