Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 260

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WORLD WAR II.) 9 issues of the U.S. military newspaper Zero Beat. Volume IV, issues 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, each 6 pages, 17.5 x 11 inches; browned with a few minor tears. Eritrea, June to September 1945

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A lively army base newspaper published in the Horn of Africa during the last days of the war, featuring a mix of camp and national news. Although Zero Beat boasted of a circulation of 700, no copy of this weekly newspaper appears in WorldCat.