COLONEL RICHARD E. COLE - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 276469
Sale Price $288.00
Reg. $320.00
DOOLITTLE'S RAIDERS: RICHARD E. COLE
Photograph of the crew of Plane #1, on which Cole served as co-pilot (Jimmy Doolittle
himself was the pilot).
Photograph signed: "RE Cole". B/w, 11x8½. Led by James "Jimmy" Doolittle, 80 men on 16
B-25 bombers took off from the carrier USS Hornet on April 18, 1942. The raid, which
marked the first time fully loaded bombers took off from an aircraft carrier, was in
retaliation for Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. "Doolittle's Raiders" hit targets in
Tokyo, Yokohama and other cities and scored a huge victory for U.S. morale at a time when
Japan's position in the Pacific seemed impregnable. Richard E. Cole (1915-2019) was the
co-pilot of Plane #1, piloted by Lt. Col Doolittle himself, which incinerated a Tokyo
factory. The crew bailed out over China, but all returned home safely. Cole continued to
serve in the China-Burma-India Theatre into 1944. Remaining in the peacetime Air Force,
his duties included Operations Advisor to the Venezuelan Air Force (1959-1962). Minor
surface creases (not evident head on). Fine condition.
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