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Rare Honolulu Pearl Harbor Attack Newspaper

Steven | March 2, 2010

I’ve been consigned a good many items from the famous John Lattimer estate, and will be posting sneak previews of the auctions here on my site. But to begin, I want to share some of the listings that went up last night. Here is a rare Honolulu Star-Bulletin December 7, 1941 newspaper on the attack [...]

It wasn’t that long ago…

Steven | January 16, 2009

I was doing some research tonight, and looked up the biography of Marine Corps General Henry Larsen. He arrived in France in the first troop convoy from America and took part in every USMC combat in France in WWI, led the first combat troops to leave the continental US to fight in WWII, and supervised [...]