EISENHOWER, Dwight D.

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Photograph album illustrating Eisenhower's presentation to St Paul's Cathedral of the Roll of Honor. A compelling album, apparently made by the family of a fallen serviceman and therefore unique, commemorating Eisenhower's presentation of the Roll of Honor to St Paul's Cathedral. The roll lists the 28,000 American soldiers stationed in Britain who gave their lives in the Second World War.The album includes large-format photographs of the military procession to the ceremony; attendees entering the cathedral, including Churchill, Mountbatten, Attlee, the Queen Mother and Princess Elizabeth, Eisenhower, and Curtis LeMay; photographs of the service, including the congregation singing hymns and the sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury; and Eisenhower leaving the Cathedral.The ceremony was held on Independence Day. Eisenhower delivered a message: "Each name inscribed in this book is a story of personal tragedy and a grieving family; a story repeated endlessly in white crosses girdling the globe. The Americans, whose names here appear, were part of the price that free men have been forced a second time to pay in this century to defend human liberty and rights".The album includes a copy of a page from the roll, listing names from Hiltabidle to Hitchings - presumably the album was made by the family of someone listed there. We could trace no other similar album.In 1958, the American Memorial Chapel was completed in a part of the cathedral that a bomb had hit in 1940. The roll now re

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