Orig WWII May 9 1945 General Patton 3rd Army General Orders 98 VE Day Address For Sale

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Orig WWII May 9 1945 General Patton 3rd Army General Orders 98 VE Day Address:
$124.99

Up for sale is an exceptional, investment-grade piece of World War II history: General George S. Patton Jr.’s legendary "General Orders Number 98" victory address.

General Orders No. 98 is widely considered the holy grail of Third Army paper ephemera. Unlike routine, daily administrative personnel paperwork, this is Patton's formal final farewell and definitive victory address to his men. It was printed in the field and distributed to troops exactly on May 9, 1945, the historic day hostilities officially ended in Europe.