Sidney Goldberg WW2 Normandy D-Day Landings LTD TO 17 Hand Signed FDC

STB026 This is stunning 1974 collectors official limited D-Day Landings first day cover hand signed by Sidney Goldberg where the signature rests perfectly accompanying the special hand commemorative franks.  This comes with full lifetime COA as the signing has been officially certified by the publishers with full hallmarking with the series limited edition details of just 17 autographed and the number from the hand signed series reading certified no 8 of 17 in absolute brand new mint condition. You wont source better.

Goldbergs unit followed the Allied advance into Tunisia, and was based high in the Medjerda mountains, near the airfield complex at Souk-el-Arba. Though the risk of capture was lower for ground troops behind the front line than it was for German-Jewish aircrew volunteers, all faced the same fate if taken prisoner: they were treated as subhuman traitors by the Nazis.

In March and April 1943 the Germans tried to reinforce their positions in Tunisia using giant six-engined Messerschmitt Me 323 transport aircraft. Signals intercepted by Goldberg and his small unit were credited with helping Allied fighters to destroy most of this transport fleet.

After the fall of Tunis, Goldbergs unit moved to Cap Bon to cover the invasion of Sicily, and in August landed at Catania. With the steep decline of the Luftwaffe fighter force, radio traffic had lessened considerably and, after a few months, Goldberg and his unit returned to England to prepare for D-Day.

On June 5 Goldberg embarked in Hilary, the HQ ship for Force J, to cover the landings of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on Juno beach. He landed at Arromanches on August 8 and his unit moved steadily eastwards with the frontline ground forces as they advanced into Holland.

Support was given for the airborne landings at Arnhem and, on October 4, Goldberg and his unit made a critical breakthrough when they realised from their intercepts that the revolutionary Messerschmitt 262 jet, which posed a serious threat to Allied bombers, had been switched from its deadly fighter role to bombing duties which would have far less impact on the overall Allied campaign.

At the conclusion of hostilities Goldberg was sent to Lingen in Germany, where he and his German-speaking colleagues became interpreters with the Air Disarmament Wings. They interviewed German scientists and gathered a wide array of technical information. In late 1945 Goldberg was released from the RAF in the rank of sergeant.