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WWII USAAF DAVID MCCAMPBELL AUTOGRAPH & RIBBON LOT

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WWII USAAF DAVID MCCAMPBELL AUTOGRAPH & RIBBON LOT
Good grouping of Medal of Honor recipient David McCampbell. Featured are several autographs, photos, a New Guinea pocket guide, first's day cover, his book, documents, simulated MOH ribbons, and more. McCampbell is the United States Navy's all-time leading flying ace (called Ace of the Aces in the Navy) and top F6F Hellcat ace with 34 aerial victories. He was the third highest American scoring ace of World War II and the highest scoring American ace to survive the war. He also set a United States single mission aerial combat record of shooting down nine enemy planes in one mission, on October 24, 1944, at the beginning of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the Philippines.