War-dated ALS signed “B. L. Montgomery, General, Eighth Army," one page, 8.5 x 10.5, Partito Nazionale Fascista letterhead, September 22, 1943. Letter to "My dear Elliott," in part: "I have received the band score for the march you have composed for my Army. It is quite first class and I am delighted with it. I gratefully accept its dedication to the Eight Army. Thank you very much. Excuse this captured Fascist paper but it is all I have at the moment." In very good condition, with three folded edges, and splitting along several intersecting folds. Montgomery's Eighth Army had completed Operation Baytown, the Allied amphibious landing on the Italian mainland, only a few weeks earlier on September 3rd, and continued fighting its way north alongside the US Fifth Army, led by Mark W. Clark.
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