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| *The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | |
| Name | Info |
  Basil Pratt USN *Signature Value : £20 | Served on the USS Nevada from 1938 through the attack at Pearl Harbor to 1942. In 1943 after sub training, he served on board the USS 259 Jack submarine, completing 9 combat tours in the Pacific and South China Sea. |
  Melvin Ellis USN *Signature Value : £15 | Melvin Ellis joined the USS Nevada on March 11, 1939, and served with her throughout the war from Pearl Harbor to the Aleutians, from the D-Day invasion of Normandy of 1944, through Iwo Jima and Okinawa to the Marshall Islands in 1945. He retired the service in 1955. |
  Paul Adams USMC *Signature Value : £15 | Paul was in the Marine detachment on the USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards he served with the 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific - participating in the battles for the Aleutians, and after a short trip on convoy escort in the Atlantic in 1943, he returned to the Pacific for the Battle of Okinawa in April 1945. |
  Woodrow Wilson Derby USN (deceased) *Signature Value : £15 | Joining the navy in 1938, Woody was posted direct to USS Nevada, and was aboard at Pearl Harbor. He served throughout the war on the Nevada; at the D-Day bombardment of Utah beach where Nevada was the only US ship from Pearl Harbor at Normandy - and later in the Pacific. He died on 25th January 2020. |
| The Aircraft : | |
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| Aichi | The D1A was primarily used in the Second Sino-Japanese War and up to the time Japan entered World War II in 1941. At the beginning of the Pacific War, all of the remaining D1A1s were decommissioned and most of the D1A2s were retired from the front line service but remained in service as a trainer at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The D1A was produced in two variants, the D1A1 (Navy Type 94 Carrier Bomber), and the D1A2 (Navy Type 96 Carrier Bomber, sometimes referred to as the D2A With the exception was 68 of the D1A2 model that operated as a second-line support until being retired in 1942. The Allied reporting name for this aircraft was "Susie " |
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Adams, Paul (signed in person)
(signed in person)