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Auction: 369 - Autographs & Documents e-Auction featuring the Mike Roth Aviation Collection Part II
Lot: 45

1939 Collier Trophy Award. Letter from racing pilot Jacqueline Cochran to Dr. George M. Lewis, Chairman of the Collier's trophy Committee. Two pages, typed, August 1, 1940. Cochran offers her thoughts on outstanding achievements viable for the award. In the field of safety she nominates "a group of Army and airline pilots and doctors for their outstanding work in safe altitude flying and the application of oxygen in that connection with special citation of Doctors Lovelace and Boothby of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. Armstrong of Wright Field". Cochran signs in black in big, bold hand below. A pioneer of women's aviation, Jackie Cochran (1906-1980) was one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation. Cochran set numerous records, and in 1953 became the first woman to break the sound barrier. For her service in WWII, she was awarded the DSM.

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