Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 422

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 750 - $ 1,000
(MILITARY--WWII.) TUSKEGEE AIRMEN. Photograph of Captain Clarence Clifford Jamison, Army Air Corps. 8 x 10 glossy photograph, mounted to a slightly larger piece of paper, from a scrap book. signed by captain Jamison on the paper mount. Tuskegee, Ala., circa 1943
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A rare photograph of one of the Tuskegee Airmen, in the cockpit of his fighter plane. Captain Clarence Clifford Jamison was in the second graduating class of the Tuskegee Airmen. He was part of the 99th Fighter Squadron and was one of the first Negro pilots to engage in aerial combat. On January 24, 1944, over Italy, a squadron, led by Captain Jamison downed five German planes.