FDCs

Some years ago I bought a large collection of 445 signed first day covers. I have started organizing them and am now ready to start posting them. The subjects are in a variety of areas of interest ranging from military to Nobel Laureates. I am going to attempt to organize them by area of interest. The collector obviously had a wide area of interest, but unfortunately the only list he had was of the names. Most I have been able to find info on but some have evaded me. I have those listed at the bottom under "unknown subjects" but included their names.

While there are other pages on my site that feature some of these areas of interest (such as Aces), I decided to keep this collection in its own area.

Quality of Scan Note - Most of these I scanned at a low resolution so the page would load faster. If you would like a normal or high resolution scan of any of these, please email me at the address at the bottom of each page.

		Military
	FDC433	E. Alex Phillips - Alex was a pilot in the US Navy during World War II where he was honored as a Navy Flying Ace receiving 8 Air Medals, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses and 2 Silver Stars. He had 5 victories. Deceased
	FDC432	Kenneth "Bud" Pool - USAAF WWII Ace - 5 Victories. DFC, Bronze Star, Air Medal
	FDC401	Joel Owens - USAAF WWII Ace - 5 Victories - Silver Star, DFC, Air Medal
	FDC404	Dolphin Overtron - USAF Korean Ace - 5 Victories - DFC & Air Medal
	FDC405	Paul Olson - USAAF WWII Ace - 5 Victories - Purple Heart, Air Medal, POW Medal, Caterpillar Club
	FDC025	John Bolt - ACE
	FDC026	John Bolt - Ace
	FDC027	Norman Berree - USN WWII Ace - 9 Victories, DFC, Air Medal, Presidential Unit Citation
	FDC028	William Bryan - USAAF WWII Ace - 7.5 Victories - DFC, DFC, DSM, Air Medal, Legion of Merit
	FDC033	Edward Latimer Beach, Jr. (April 20, 1918 – December 1, 2002) was a highly-decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author.During World War II, he participated in the Battle of Midway and 12 combat patrols, earning 10 decorations for gallantry, including the Navy Cross. After the war, he served as the naval aide to the President of the United States and commanded the first submerged circumnavigation. Beach's best-selling novel, Run Silent, Run Deep, was made into the 1958 film by the same name. The son of Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr. and Alice Fouché Beach, Edward Latimer Beach, Jr., was born in New York City, New York and raised in Palo Alto, California.
	FDC034	Charles Bond - AVG WWII - 7 Victories - DSM, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, plus several British and Chinese decorations
	FDC035	Steve Bonner - USAAF - 5 Victories - DFC, Air Medal
	FDC037	HenryButtlemann - USAF Korea - 7 Victories - Silver Star, DFC, Air Medal, AF Commendation Medal
	FDC041	Arleigh Burke - He successively commanded Destroyer Division 43, Destroyer Division 44, Destroyer Squadron 12, and Destroyer Squadron 23. The latter squadron, known as the "Little Beavers", covered the initial landings in Bougainville in November 1943, and fought in 22 separate engagements during the next four months. During this time, the "Little Beavers" were credited with destroying one Japanese cruiser, nine destroyers, one submarine, several smaller ships, and approximately 30 aircraft.He usually pushed his destroyers to just under boiler-bursting speed, but while en route to a rendezvous prior to the Battle of Cape St. George, a boiler casualty limited his squadron to 31 knots, rather than the 34 they were otherwise capable of. Thereafter, his nickname was "31-knot Burke," originally a taunt, later a popular symbol of his hard-charging nature. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1949 and served as Navy Secretary on the Defense Research and Development Board. At the time of his appointment as Chief of Naval Operations, Burke was still a Rear Admiral, Upper Half (Two Star) and was promoted over the heads of many Flag Officers who were senior to him. Admiral Burke had never served as a Vice Admiral (Three Star), so he was promoted two grades at the time of his appointment as CNO.









		Science/Medicine/Nobel Prize
	FDC421	J. T. Patterson - Leader in the field of genetics
	FDC029	Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June, 1955) - Inventor of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web. On 25 December, 1990 he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN. He was ranked Joint First alongside Albert Hofmann in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and he is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Often the WWW and the Internet are used interchangeably. Actually the WWW is an Internet tool, like eMail.
		Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October 1920) is a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self". His brother is well-known philosopher Paul Benacerraf. Born in Caracas, his parents were Sephardic Jews: his father was born in the Spanish Morocco and his mother in Algeria. Benacerraf moved to Paris from Venezuela with his family in 1925. After going back to Venezuela, he emigrated to the USA in 1940. He earned his B.S. at Columbia University School of General Studies. He then went on to attain the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Virginia, the only school to which he was accepted. After his medical internship and US Army service (1945–48), and working at the military hospital of Nancy, he became a researcher at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1948–50). He performed research in Paris (1950–56), relocated to New York University (1956–68), moved to the National Institutes of Health (1968–70), then joined Harvard University (1970–91), concurrently serving the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (1980). He began studies of allergies in 1948, and discovered the Ir (immune response) genes that govern transplant rejection (1960s). In 1990, Benacerraf also received National Medal of Science for his contributions to the world of medicine.




		Political

		Authors/Poets/Etc
	FDC412	Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson. She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A. Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes on a broad range of topics including politics, history, and literary criticism. Furthermore, she has written and translated poetry. Her most recent novel, Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), called The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom, received much praise in the literary press. Most recently, Ozick published The Din in the Head, a collection of literary essays. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award established by Bernard Malamud’s family "to honor excellence in the art of the short story"
		Eric Bentley (born September 14, 1916 in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a renowned critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator. He became an American citizen in 1948, and currently lives in New York City. In 1998 he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame; he is also a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame, in recognition of his years of performances in cabarets. In addition to teaching at Columbia University, which he joined in 1953, Bentley was in the 1950s a theatre critic for The New Republic, known for his blunt style of theatre criticism. Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller threatened to sue Bentley for his unfavorable reviews of their work, but abandoned the attempt. From 1960-1961 Bentley was the Norton professor at Harvard University. Bentley met Bertolt Brecht at UCLA as a young man and is considered one of the pre-eminent experts on Brecht, whose work he has translated. He edited the Grove Press issue of Brecht's work, and made two albums of Brecht songs for the legendary Folkways Records label, most of which had never been recorded in English before. In 1969, Bentley came out of the closet and declared his homosexuality. In an interview in the New York Times on 12 November 2006, he says he was married twice before coming out at age 53, and deciding, at the same time, to leave his post at Columbia to concentrate on his writing. He has stated his being gay as an influence on his theater work, especially his play Lord Alfred's Lover. He has written many critical books, including A Century of Hero-Worship, The Playwright as Thinker, Bernard Shaw, What is Theatre?, The Life of the Drama, Theatre of War, Brecht Commentaries, and Thinking about the Playwright. He has also edited The Importance Of Scrutiny (1964), a collection of pieces from a now defunct critical magazine, and Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968 (1971). His most-produced play, Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been (more properly Are You Now or Have You Ever Been: The Investigations of Show-Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947-1958), published in 1972, was based on these texts. Another play, Lord Alfred's Lover, treats on Oscar Wilde.
		British Fundraising Covers
		British Fundraising Covers - These beautiful covers are certified and numbered by the Joint Services Charities Commission as fundraisers for the RAF Association and RAF Benevolent Fund Flowerdown Home. Most have nice additional material enclosed. Long out of print, these covers are scarce.
	BFC01 $10.00	Signed by Wing Commander K. W.. Mackenzie. Includes a descriptive card about the mission. Number 21 of 232
	BFC02 $6.00	Signed by Bernard Lealhaill, speaker. Includes descriptive card and photo about the cover. #1 of 100
	BFC03 $11.00
	BFC04 $11.00
	BFC05 $17.00
	BFC06 $30.00
	BFC07 $10.00
	BFC08 $9.00
	BFC09 $6.00
	BFC10 $8.00



		Sports
		Felix "Doc" Blanchard - WWII West Point football star - All American and Heisman Trophy winner.

		Unknown Subjects - Unable to find info on these