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Richard E. Cole Signed Acoustic Guitar Pickguard Inscribed "4-18-42" (PSA COA)

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Richard E. Cole Signed Acoustic Guitar Pickguard Inscribed  4-18-42  (PSA COA)

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Auction Date:2017 Oct 12 @ 19:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:2320 W Peoria Ave Suite B142, Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, United States
This pickguard has an adhesive back and can be attached to an acoustic guitar. The pick guard has been hand-signed and inscribed in silver paint pen by Richard E. Cole.

On April 18, 1942, little more than four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 80 airmen in 16 modified North American B-25B Mitchell bombers lifted off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in the northwest Pacific bound for targets in Japan. The operation marked the first Allied retaliatory strike on the Japanese Home Islands. To plan the daring mission U.S. Army Air Forces Lt. Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold had tapped Lt. Col. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, the famed air racer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer. Doolittle piloted the lead plane fromHornet. His co-pilot was 26-year-old Lieutenant Richard E. “Dick” Cole. Neither Doolittle nor any of his men had flown a single combat mission