Lot of two items. Signed book: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1944. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.5 x 8, 221 pages. Signed in ink by thirty-one of the raiders, several adding their rank or the date of the raid. The signers are: Birch, Bower, Bourgeois, Campbell, Cole, Crouch, Davenport, DeShazer, Griffin, Herndon, Hite, Holstrum, Hoover, Horton, Jones, Jorden, Joyce, Kappeler, Macia, McClure, McCool, Nielsen, Ozuk, Pohl, Potter, Saylor, Sessler, Stork, Thatcher, G. Williams, and York. Also included is an 8 x 10 matte-finish photo of James Doolittle, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “To Gail Schwartz: With every good wish, J. H. Doolittle.” In fine condition, with light toning and rubbing to book and edge wear to jacket, and a touch of subtle rippling to photo. R&R COA.
