Panzers, M. Georg Wolfgang:
Ausfuhrliche Beschreibung Der Altesten Augspurgischen Ausgaben Der Bibel - edition reliée, livre de poche
2013, ISBN: 67ff1e0e55056ac8af5120f1ad2e2176
192 letters, 551 pp., (179 retained mailing envelopes), plus 38 pieces of ephemera including greeting cards, used envelopes, postcards, etc., plus 1 small photograph of James T. Oliver.Of… Plus…
192 letters, 551 pp., (179 retained mailing envelopes), plus 38 pieces of ephemera including greeting cards, used envelopes, postcards, etc., plus 1 small photograph of James T. Oliver.Of the 192 letters, 181 are written by James T. Oliver to his mother Margaret Oliver, some of these are addressed to both Margaret and James' father Henry (Harry), at their home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 181 letters written by James T. Oliver were all written while he was serving in the armed forces during World War Two (1943-1946).The other 11 letters not written by James T. Oliver were written by either family or friends, ten of them were written to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver (mostly Mrs. Oliver). Of these 10 letters, 3 of them were written by Pfc. Edward Conlin while serving in the military; 1 letter was written by Pvt. Wm. M. Madgey while serving in the military; 2 letters by Lois F. Lewis of Whiteville, North Carolina; 1 letter by Mrs. Oliver's niece Eleanor of Philadelphia; 1 letter from Edith, of Island of Oahu; 1 letter by Leonora A. Wilkie of Syracuse, New York, and there is 1 letter written by Margaret Oliver to Mrs. Lewis. There is also 1 letter written to James T. Oliver from a Pfc. Hinton while Hinton was serving in the armed forces in 1973.James T. Oliver (1923-2013)James T. Oliver was born 30 July 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of eight children born to Henry Oliver (1901-1957) and his wife Margaret S. MacLardy. James' paternal grand-parents, Thomas Henry Oliver and Anna Homer. were English immigrants. Thomas Henry Oliver was born on 5 November 1870 in the textile center of Kidderminster, England, and arrived in Philadelphia on 19 October 1885. He eventually became a weaver in a textile factory in the mill district of Kensington, Philadelphia, a place that attracted many Kidderminster immigrants. Thomas Oliver died in 1929. At the time of his death he lived at 102 East Tioga Street, the same block that James T. Oliver grew up on and would later write to his own parents at (112 E. Tioga Street) later on when he served in the military during World War Two.The 1930 Census shows Harry Oliver, James' father, following his own father into the textile business. He was listed as a rug printer at a carpet mill. In the 1940 Census the Oliver family (Harry, his wife Margaret, son James, and Margaret's mother Bertha MacLardy) were found living at 112 E. Tioga Street in Philadelphia's Harrowgate neighborhood, near Front and Tioga Streets. Harrowgate bordered Philadelphia's Kensington section, the major textile mill neighborhood of Philadelphia. The 112 E. Tioga Street address is where James T. Oliver wrote to his parents during World War Two. The Oliver family rented this home. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver were both born in Pennsylvania, as was Margaret's mother Bertha. They had been living at the Tioga Street address since at least 1935.James' parents later moved to 4231 Lawndale Street in Philadelphia, where James' father Harry Oliver died in 1957 of heart disease. He was only 56 years old. He was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Harry was listed as working in the finishing department of a carpet company when he died.James T. Oliver entered military service in 1943, attending basic training at Camp Davis, North Carolina. He was assigned to an anti-aircraft artillery unit, joining Battery D, 556th, Automatic Weapons Battalion under the 55th A.A.A. Brigade and attached the XIII Corps, under the 9th Army. The 9th Army fought its way from the Netherlands to the Elbe River, getting 50 miles from Berlin; the closest American forces came to the enemy capital before V-E Day.Oliver writes his letters from Camp Davis and Fort Fisher, North Carolina, and from England, France, Holland, Belgium and Germany.James T. Oliver passed away on 30 January 2013, in his home in North Wales, Pennsylvania. He was 89 years old. He was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in Feasterville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the same burial ground as his father. James T. Oliver married Mary Ann Morrison. His obituary states he worked as a carpenter for a number of years at the Keystone Concrete Company.Description of CorrespondenceThe correspondence begins on 30 March 1943, James T. Oliver is already in the military stationed at Camp Davis, North Carolina. He is attached to a U.S. Army anti-aircraft artillery battalion, "Battery D, 556th, Coast Artillery Battalion. (Anti-Aircraft)" He is listed as a private. The 556th was activated on March 20th.By early June 1943, and after finishing basic training at Camp Davis, Oliver moves to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, about fifty miles south of Camp Davis, for further training in advanced military subjects and firing of primary weapons. He is now taken out of Coast Artillery and put in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery School (A.A.A.S.). He is now listed in Battery D, 556th, A.A.A. Automatic Weapons Battalion. By the end of August 1943, Oliver is finished at the A.A.A.S. and returns to Camp Davis to start his first detail at the AA School in Camp Davis, where he participated in the schooling of officers in the advanced officer's courses and the training of enlisted specialists.In March of 1944, Oliver is transferred back to Fort Fisher, North Carolina. He is still with Battery D, 556th, A.A.A. AutoWpns Bn. In May the 556th his unit is attached to the 2nd Army and Oliver moves to Fort Jackson, South Carolina to participate in combined training activities with other arms of the service and prepare for eventual overseas movement. By the end of the summer Oliver is ready to ship out overseas to Europe.Beginning in September 1944, Oliver's letters have an APO address out of New York City, and his letters are subject to military censorship. By the end of September he is in England, writing as much about his trip and what he sees as he is allowed by the censors. At this point some of his overseas letters are V-mail, a hybrid mail process used by America during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. To reduce the cost of transferring an original letter through the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to film, and printed back to paper upon arrival at its destination.In Oct 1944, Oliver reports he is "somewhere in France." In November, Oliver is "somewhere in Holland," where he remains into 1945. In late January 1945, Oliver is back in France, at Le Havre, before showing up "somewhere in Germany" by mid-February 1945. He remains in Germany until May of 1945, where, while still in Germany, he mentions he is "somewhere in Holtzminden, Germany." Oliver remains in Holtzminden through May of 1945, and then writes that he is in Antwerp, Belgium in June. He remains in Antwerp, at Camp Top Hat until the end of the year and into January of 1946 when the correspondence ends on 16 January 1946. Camp Top Hat was a "Cigarette Camp," one of a number of temporary U.S. Army "tent cities" situated principally around the French ports of Le Havre and Marseilles following their respective captures in the wake of the Allied D-Day invasion in June, 1944, and Operation Dragoon in July, 1944.Le Havre camps were located in what the Army designated the "Red Horse" staging area and named after popular brands, including Camps Lucky Strike, Old Gold, and Pall Mall. Another series of temporary camps set up at the same time in France was named after United States cities, referred to as "City Camps". A single Cigarette Camp, Top Hat, was located in Antwerp, Belgium. Top Hat is where Oliver was stationed for a number of months in 1945. The Cigarette Camps were administered by the 89th Infantry Division, headquartered at Bois-Guillaume, near RouenIn his last letter of January 16th, Oliver writes to his mother that he is likely to be released from military service by March or April of 1946.Sample Quotations: "Jan 1, 1945, Somewhere in HollandMother, The passes to town. Here is one for the books. After all the fighting here in Holland, someone put posters say that they would shave the heads of any Dutch girls dating the army over here. I would have told you this before, but I was trying to find out more but can't.You keep asking about what army. I would like to tell you. If I did tell you there would only be a hole in this paper.So Long, Jim""Somewhere in Holland, Jan 20, 1944,Mother,I am very sorry but last week I wrote you a letter and they gave it back to me. I gave too much information in it. I know you want to know what I said. Well it was about a German plane, the Me 262. It is the German jet job. That is all I can tell you. I believe that will get to you alright.We have seen action on Xmas and New Year's; there was a lot of German planes in the sky. There was a lot of them never got back to Germany. I told you I am in the 9th Army, but if you still didn't get my letter there it is again.I received two letters from you today (Jan 6) both of them the same date. This is the first letter I received from you in three or four weeks. There is very little mail coming in. I received packages from Aunt Hal. and Floss so be sure to thank them for me. I also got one from you. They really go good only they don't last so long. You know it don't take long for 15 of us to kill a box.The weather over here is very bad. It has been snowing for the last two weeks. It hasn't been so bad, but the last week it is very cold. The other night it got a little warm and it rained. Well the C.P. got 3 foot of water in it and we had to get out. It stopped raining, but the water kept coming in, so at two o'clock in the morning we had to move out. Later it started to snow again, but our relief came so we got some time off. It has been snowing again for the last two days.We moved not very far, but it made a lot of work for us, well if it is all done and maybe I will get some time to write, so I won't be too tired. There is still a lot of work to do like getting snow out of the gun pit. It always fills up when it snows and getting the ice off of the gun.Well don't forget to keep sending the packages I still have a lot coming but don't let that stop you. I can always use one or two. By the way send some paper to write and some 6 cent air mail stamps. So Long, Jim""Somewhere in Germany, Feb 12, 1945Mother,We'll we moved up and in another country. Things up here is not like in Holland. They are very bad. We do not live in a house like in other places. We are living in the ground. The way things are it is better this way. The country around here is flat not many [hills] and if there is any hills they are very low. It has rained for three days and everything is wet, and the mud is deep.Writing up here is hard we get very little time. I am writing this and it is the first time I have had off and it is only a few min. You should see us. We haven't washed or shaved in over a week and I don't know how soon we will be able I could sure use a bath.Well I got you a German helmet. I still can't see what you want it for. I have to get another box. It won't fit in an overseas shipping box. I got a good one, but I will try to get a better one there is a lot of them laying around here.There isn't much left of the towns around here. They all look like St. Lo or worse. They tell us they will fine us $65 if they catch us talking to any German, well the time I have been here I still have [yet] to see any German. These towns are like ghost towns you see in the movies, so you see I am still saving money up here. We still get payed in Dutch money. There isn't anything to buy here anyhow.So Long, Jim""Somewhere in Germany, Feb 26, 1945Mother,Today is a bad day, it is raining and cold. I have a little time in which I am writing this letter. We are not doing much only since the big push has started we are or have seen some more of the German air force. They don't have very much and they fly mostly at night. It is really nice to watch, all these balls of red going up and all over the sky. It looks like the 4th of July.I am well and feel fine we are eating good sometimes and sometimes not, but we are doing alright.I am sitting in my hut and have a fire. It is really going strong. The sleeping we have is very good. Sometimes the fire goes out and the sack keeps us plenty warm.Where we are you can see the way this battle is going from the way the shells burst in the distance. The way they are going they are still taking the land off these Germans so maybe I will be home in less than the 2 years at leastYours truly Jim""March 28, 1945Mother,Well you keep saying in your letter to tell you more well I can't tell you much... I can't tell you where I am or what I'm with or what we are doing. The only thing I can say is I am with the ninth army so look in the papers and you will know where we are. In fact I don't know the name of the town we just came on (if we are near one) the name of it the one were near so watch the newspapers.I just got a board to write on I guess you can see by the writing I am in a hurry. I am trying to get this off before I go on the gun.I can see the road they are bringing the Germans back from the front. They come in a line by the 100 and several times a day. A boy in the Inf. Told us that the 3rd Army is only 45 miles from Berlin. He said it came over B.B.C. (England). I didn't hear it but I hope it is true because I don't like being away from home this long and a lot of the boys have been over a lot longer than I have & they feel the same way. I just hope I get those 3 weeks before going to the S.P. although most of the boys are over thereWhen I said we live in the ground I don't know what give you [the] idea we live in a coal mine. Look! Another boy and I (Bud Miller) have a hole it is 6' x 6' and 5' deep. We get a foot of straw on the bottom and all we do is sleep or get in it when they shell us. It has a roof of one large and five small doors and about six inches of dirt on top. If this was a coal mine I would not make much of a living out of it..So Long, Jim""Somewhere in Germany, May 8, 1945Mother,Well today is VE Day and it is all over in the E.T.O. but we still don't know what we are going to do. It don't make much difference because I couldn't tell you any way. They are still the same way I cannot tell you where I am.We have a nice set up here. We are living in a row of twin houses and one section to a house. The guns are at the end of the street the same with the trucks so we don't have so much guard to pull. We are going to give them one good cleaning, but then we don't knowSo long Jim""Somewhere in Germany, May 17, 1945Mother,I received a letter today postmarked May 7 saying you still don't receive any mail you should have received one I will say I didn't write any too often but you should have heard something.Tonight I am on guard at a Displaced person camp and they are all Russians, they are the slaves the Germans had co, 0, Nurnberg: George Peter Monath, 1780 Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original grey paper boards. A listing and description of several early editions of the Holy Bible, beginning with that of Johann Bamler in 1466, in Latin. Text is in German. Condition of this book is fragile. The front cover is secured by only two of the three binding cords. Light tanning throughout. Small labels of two previous owners. 148 pp.., George Peter Monath, 1780, 2<
