Typed Letter Signed J H Doolittle To U S Congressman James M Mead Explaining His Flight In Honor Of

by James Doolittle

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

One page, on letterhead of “George Washington Bicentennial Airplane Flight”. Fine, with commemorative envelope. In tan morocco-backed cloth folder. Item #247169 Doolittle, the aviator who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading the bombing raids over Tokyo in World War II, writes: “I am making a flight over as many of the routes traveled by George Washington as is possible in a single day from dawn to dusk.

• Binding: Leather

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