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Scarce Signature of Actor & WWII Ace Wayne Morris
MORRIS, Wayne 1914-1959). American film and TV actor. Last of the B-Western stars. Decorated WWII fighter pilot, stationed on the aircraft carrier Essex. Shot down 7 Japanese aircraft and helped sink 5 vessels. Three of his planes were so heavily damaged by enemy fire they had to be dumped into the ocean as “unfit for duty.” Vintage album page inscribed: “To Eleanor Wayne Morris.” Affixed to the album page is a portrait of Morris as a sailor. Morris died at the young age of 45, His autographs are not common and missing from many collections of American Aces..............................$47.50
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