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Dick Cole's War: Doolittle Raider Hump Pilot Air Commando signed
2015030581Columbia: University of Missouri Press 2015. SIGNED by the subject: Richard "Dick" Cole as "R. E. Cole" directly on the title page his signature only NOT personalized to anyone. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips tears creases or fading. Bright and shiny. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked - apparently seldom if ever read. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. With 18 pages of vintage WW2 photographs. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black boards lettered in bright silver. From the dust jacket: "With the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 7 2015 Dick Cole has long stood in the powerful spotlight of fame that has followed him since his B-25 was launched from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In recognition the tremendous boost Doolittle's Raid gave American morale members of The Tokyo Doolittle Raiders were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in May 2014. Doolittle's Raid was only the opening act of Cole's flying career during the war. When that mission was complete and all of the 16 aircraft had crash-landed in China many of the survivors were assigned to combat units in Europe. Cole remained in India after their rescue and was assigned to Ferrying Command flying the Hump of the Himalayas for a year in the world's worst weather with inadequate aircraft few aids to navigation and inaccurate maps. More than 600 aircraft with their crews were lost during this monumental effort to keep China in the war but Cole survived and rotated home in 1943. He was home just a few months when he was recruited for the First Air Commandos and he returned to India to participate in Project 9 the aerial invasion of Burma.". SIGNED by Dick Cole his signature only. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiii 321pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. University of Missouri Press Hardcover
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