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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2810748, member: 14873&quot;]Thank you [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] I don&#039;t wish to drag this out -- and I am trying to make this coin related. So here goes:</p><p><br /></p><p>I only recently re-established contact with Col. Cole. He retired later in the 1960s and I transferred to Macdill AFB in Florida. So we lost contact with each other for over forty years. After such a long passage of time I just assumed he had passed away until I read about him a few months ago. Although I shared his office with him (our desks were opposite each other) and we conversed daily, I wasn&#039;t aware for some time that he was a famous Doolittle Raider. He was, as most men of his ilk are, very modest and un-assuming. He appointed me his assistant (he was Director of Operations) in charge of Airlift Control which was a great boost to my career. With his easy, pleasant disposition he was a joy to work for - a real gentleman and leader and a true American hero.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will use the following coins to make an association:</p><p><br /></p><p>I think he was as faithful and true a Co-Pilot to Jimmy Doolittle as Constantius was a Caesar to Maximianus:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/lon17o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://jp29.org/lon17r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/lon20o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://jp29.org/lon20r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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