Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SIGNED SHORTLY AFTER HIS 1942 SECRET MISSION (WORLD WAR II.) RICKENBACKER, EDWARD VERNON ("EDDIE"). Signature by him and by 4 other survivors of the 1942 crash of their Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress on a souvenir line-crossing ceremony document, a Shellback Certificate issued in 1942 to Robert N. Herron, Hospitalman Apprentice 1st Class, U.S. Navy. 15x20 inches; folds. Np, [circa 30 November 1942]
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Captain Eddie Rickenbacker Colonel Hans C. Adamson Captain William Cherry, Jr. Lieutenant James C. Whittaker Lieutenant John J. De Angelis.
On October 21, 1942, Rickenbacker and six others boarded a Boeing B-17 and embarked on a mission to deliver important mail including documents containing secret military communications. They became lost, ran out of fuel, and crash landed in the Pacific Ocean. After three weeks adrift, starving and suffering from exposure, the men on one of three rafts were spotted by a Navy plane, those on another raft found an island, and soon all were rescued. In the end, Rickenbacker was able to deliver at least some of the secret communications that were entrusted to him.