US pilot and WWII hero. Flight flown TLS signed “J. H. Doolittle,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, George Washington Bicentennial Airplane Flight letterhead, no date. In part: “One hundred and fifty-seven years ago this week, the Continental Congress inaugurated the postal service…that later became the Post Office Department of the United States. Benjamin Franklin became the first director. Mail, at that time, was carried by post riders and stage coaches…In this Bicentennial Year of George Washington’s birth it therefore seems appropriate that a demonstration be made of the advance of transportation facilities since those early days. 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…So that you will have a record of this flight, I am dropping several of these letters as I pass over certain cities.” In fine condition and accompanied by the original typed mailing envelope featuring a cachet and stamps commemorating this journey. R&R COA.
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