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| B-25
Mitchell • Tokyo Raider Signed by Jimmy Doolittle's Co-Pilot Colonel Richard
Cole, Thomas Griffin & Captain David M. Jones |
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18 April 1942, Lt. Col. Cole (then 2nd Lieutenant), flew from the deck
of the Carrier U.S.S. Hornet on what would be one of the most daring raids
on the empire of Japan during WWII. He was the co-pilot of a B-25B Mitchell
bomber (piloted by Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle). His plane was
one of sixteen like-bombers with a mission to bomb Tokyo and other key
cities in Japan that day. This attack, America's first retaliatory strike,
and only months following Pearl Harbor, would be a decisive blow, not to
the Japanese war machine but to their morale and feeling of invincibility.
It would ultimately lead to the turning point of the war with the Japanese
risking a large part of their fleet and their resulting defeat at Midway
in June of that same year. |
All airplane models are Hand Carved, Hand Painted
Mahogany and comes fully assembled with removable desk stand. |
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The model is hand autographed by Colonel
Richard Cole and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Dimensions: Wingspan, 16 1/2" • Length, 13 1/2
" • 1/48 Scale
IItem # A1028B2RC
.. $254.95
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