DOOLITTLE'S TOKYO RAIDERS

SUMMARY: This offering is a matted display of 16 signed cards of the Doolittle Raiders and photographs from the USS Hornet. SOLD

Bound for Tokyo, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and the other Raiders launched their B-25 Mitchells from the heaving deck of the carrier USS Hornet on the morning of 18 April, 1942. Leading a sixteen-bomber force on their long distance one - way (one could substitute suicide for one-way) mission, the Doolittle Raiders completed the first strike at the heart of Imperial Japan since the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor four months earlier. Together, they completed one of the most audacious air raids in aviation history. When FDR was asked where the flight originated he replied "Shaingra la" with an all-knowing look on his face.

This offering is a double matted display of sixteen 3 in x 5 in white cards signed by Doolittle Raiders including one signed by Doolittle. The autographs are combined with multiple diffrerent photographic images from the Hornet prior to take off.The overall size of the matted piece is 32 in x 40 in .The following signed the cards: General Jimmy Doolittle, Richard Cole, Jacob DeSchazer, David Tatcher, Ed Horton, Ed Saylor,Charles Ozuk, Davy Jones, Royden Stork, Robert Hite, Bill Bower, Fred Kappeler,Tom Griffith, Charles Nielsen, Robert Hite, William Birch. The overall condition of the piece is good. The signatures are bold.

Almost every older American knows the major details of the raid and the heroism involved in te Doolittle raid. But what is less known is that this raid caused the Japanese to attack Midway Island in order to establish a base to prevent further attacks on their homeland. That battle was the real beginning of the end for the Japanese navy.Thus the Doolittle mission had not only important symbolic and morale boosting importance but it turned out to have important strategic significance.

When we reflect what these men did, we should always remember we are the home of the free because we are the also the home of the brave.

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Price:SOLD