Bidspirit auction | WW2 Alex Vraciu WW11 Ace

WW2 Alex Vraciu WW11 Ace signed 50th Anniv Air Raid Pearl Harbor cover. 7 Dec 1991 USS Arizona Memorial Pearl Harbor Remembered Special Postmark. 50th Anniversary Air Raid Pearl Harbor This is No Drill Special cover showing Nakajima B5n2 Type 97 aircraft added cachet 07. 58 (Local Time) Emergency broadcast by Commander Logan C. Ramsey from Marine Air Base at Ewa Ford Island, Air Raid Pearl Harbour. This is No Drill. Alexander Vraciu (November 2, 1918 - January 29, 2015) was a United States Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient, and Medal of Honor nominee during World War II. At the end of the war, Vraciu ranked fourth among the U. S. Navy's flying aces, with 19 enemy planes downed during flight and 21 destroyed on the ground. After the war, he served as a test pilot and was instrumental in forming the post-war Naval and Marine Air Reserve program. From 1956 to 1958 Vraciu led his own fighter squadron, VF-51, for twenty-two months. He retired from the U. S. Navy with the rank of commander on December 31, 1963. Good condition Est.