Jacob Beser Autograph

Jacob Beser (May 15, 1921 – June 17, 1992) was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces who served during World War II. Beser was the radar specialist aboard the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945, when it dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, Beser was a crewmember aboard Bockscar when the Fat Man bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. He was the only person to have served as a strike crew member of both of the 1945 atomic bomb missions. More about Jacob Beser

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Current items with a signature of Jacob Beser

These are the most current items with a signature of Jacob Beser that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Jacob Beser Countermeasures Officer Enola Gay & Bockscar Crews Signed Photograph	$125.00
	Jacob Beser Flew on BOTH World War 2 Atomic Bomb Missons SIGNED 8X10	$65.00
	Jacob Beser signed bank check. Enola GaY- Bockscar. Hiroshima/ Nagasaki.FREE PIC	$48.95
	Jacob Beser signed matted with photo 8x10 frame size COA S23 Enola Gay	$95.00
	US ATOMIC BOMB - HEROSHIMA - VAN KIRK, JACOB BESER, JEPPSON SIGNED 1943 COVER 6	$100.00
	US ATOMIC BOMB - HEROSHIMA - VAN KIRK, JACOB BESER, JEPPSON SIGNED 1943 COVER 6	$100.00

Jacob Beser grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the Baltimore City College (high school) graduating in June 1938. Beser then studied mechanical engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, also in Baltimore, but dropped out the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor to enlist in the Army Air Forces. He was Jewish and extremely restless to get into the fight against Hitler. Because of his training and educational background Beser was sent to Los Alamos and worked on the Manhattan Project in the area of weapons firing and fusing. There, he met or worked with various luminaries in the Manhattan Project, such as Robert B. Brode, Norman Ramsey, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Edward Doll, and General Leslie Groves.

The unit that dropped the atomic bombs, 509th Composite Group, was activated at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, December 17, 1944. The crews trained with practice bombs called "pumpkins" because of their size and shape. The pumpkins were useful for training, having been designed to have the same aerodynamic qualities of the Fat Man atomic bomb. The 509th deployed to Tinian in the Marianas in May 1945. It was a self-contained unit, with personnel strength of about 1,770 soldiers, mechanics, specialists and aviators. It consisted of the 393rd Bomber Squadron, the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron, the 390th Air Service Group, the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron, the 1027th Air Materiel Squadron, the 1395th Military Police Company, and the First Ordnance Squadron (in charge of handling the atomic bombs). Read even more about Jacob Beser at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Jacob Beser

In total, we tracked 107 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.

The most expensive item with a signature of Jacob Beser (A-Bomb Enola Gay Crew Signed Card With Rare Jacob Beser) was sold in August 2011 for $750.00 while the cheapest item (JACOB BESER Enola Gay Hiroshima Signed (2) Autograph 8.5 x 11 Letter - d. 1992) found a new owner for $0.99 in December 2019. The month with the most items sold (5) was October 2016 with an average selling price of $59.49 for an autographed item of Jacob Beser. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2009 with $500.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $7.95 was March 2019. In average, an autographed item from Jacob Beser is worth $37.66.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Jacob Beser were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	ENOLA GAY CREW (JACOB BESER) autographed 8x10 photo JSA Certified	$89.95
	75th anniversary of bombings. Hiroshima & Nagasaki Revisited signed Jacob Beser	$20.50
	Atomic Bomb Missions JACOB BESER (COUNTER MEASURES) RARE 1943 Manual Signed 2x	$250.00
	Hiroshima & Nagasaki Revisited by Jacob Beser Signed First Edition Enola Gay 1st	$20.50
	Jacob Beser Countermeasures Officer Enola Gay & Bockscar Crews Signed Transcript	$75.00
	Jacob Beser d1992 signed autograph First Day Cover Radar Specialist Enola Gay	$95.00
	Jacob Beser signed bank check. Enola GaY- Bockscar. Hiroshima/ Nagasaki.FREE PIC	$18.95
	Jacob Beser signed cover Great inscriptions! Enola Gay & Bockscar Crews	$59.95
	Jacob Beser signed letter Enola Gay & Bockscar Radar Specialist WWII	$59.95
	SIGNED Hiroshima & Nagasaki Revisited by Jacob Beser 1988 WWII Global Press PB	$34.99