Inscribed to Governer Whitman McGovern, James Patrick. POEMS OF WORLD WAR II. Bethesda, Maryland: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Post No. 105, Department of Maryland, The American Legion, (1945). Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcovers bound in printed stapled green wraps titled in darker green on the front cover. The covers are darkened and rubbed with a few light creases. 16 pages. Very good.

FIRST EDITION.

Inscribed and signed by the author James Patrick McGovern to Charles Whitman, the Governor of the State of New York.


James B. McGovern, Jr. (1922 - May 6, 1954) was a World War II fighter ace and CIA pilot who died in a plane crash when his C-119 Flying Boxcar cargo plane was hit by ground fire while parachuting a howitzer to the besieged French garrison at Dien Bien Phu [1]. He and his co-pilot, Wallace Buford, were the first two Americans to die in combat in Vietnam. The day after the crash, the garrison at Dien Bien Phu surrendered.
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