MASCARENHOS DE MORAES (Marshal J. B.).
The Brazilian Expeditionary Force By Its Commander.
The English translation of the above item. The two tipped-in original photographs show Earl Alexander of Tunis and Marshal Mascarehnhos de Moraes reviewing BEF troops in the IV Corps area, Italy, in November, 1944 and, in the same month, Alexander with General Willis D. Crittenberger, Comannder of IV Corps, congratulating the only surviving officer after repeated German attacks at Polazzo, Italy.
There is an inscription on the fly-leaf from Marshal Mascarenhas de Moraes to Alexander, below which is a further inscription: “Willis D. Crittenberger, Lieut. General, IV U.S. Army Corps, World War II”. These inscriptions are all in ink in the same hand - not Moraes’s - possibly Crittenberger’s? At the rear of the book is tipped- in a facsimile of a double-sided letter from Alexander, dated May, 1963, addressed only to “My dear General”, but almost certainly to Crittenberger: “You commanded a splendid Corps which played such an important part in our final victory and I am forever mindful of the role of those fine American formations which fought with such courage and success …”
