Pearl Harbour Cover Signed P Rasmussen

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B 17 Fortress Cover

Washington postmark

Signed by Philip Rasmussen USAF who was one of the few pilots who managed to get airborne during the Pearl Harbour attack flying a Curtiss P-36a Hawk. He shot down a Japanese Zero. He was attacked himself and seriously damaged, but managed to land with no brakes, rudder and tailfin. Accounts vary, but most agree that there were about 500 bullet holes in his plane and the pilot R Dick

2991 issued signed by the pilot R Dick, but this cover is probably unique