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re: 75 Years Ago Today - Doolittle Raider's Hit Tokyo
Posted on 4/18/17 at 7:16 am to ItzMe1972
Posted on 4/18/17 at 7:16 am to ItzMe1972
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All 16 planes made it into the sky, but not before a navy crewman slipped on the soaking deck and thrust his arm into the whirring propeller of the last plane to take off.
War is hell.
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Posted on 4/18/17 at 7:26 am to ItzMe1972
Posted on 4/18/17 at 8:54 am to ItzMe1972
Japan's obsession with finding the base Doolittle launched from allowed the US to bait them into action against Midway Island and the loss of four of their first line carriers.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 9:18 am to Mr. Misanthrope
Roosevelt said the bombers had taken off from “Shangri-La,” a fictional location in the 1933 novel “Lost Horizon."
Posted on 4/18/17 at 9:21 am to ItzMe1972
I was getting a festival poster framed when I first moved to Houma. In line with me was a woman who had to amazing pieces to get framed. The first one was a civil war letter. It read "dear momma" and that was it. It had a blood stain on it. The second was al her grandfather'so pics of all the pilots in the raid. Imy pretty sure he was one of the pilots as it had personal messages written next to each photo.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:09 am to jmarto1
There was a WWII vet in the Crescent City Classic 10K this weekend.
God bless that man
God bless that man
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:31 am to Tigeralum2008
Dick Cole is the last of the Raiders. He is in Ohio marking the anniversary. He was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot.
He took the controls of the B-25 and looks like a pro!
LINK
Talks about Doolittle.
He took the controls of the B-25 and looks like a pro!
LINK
Talks about Doolittle.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 10:40 am to ItzMe1972
Each year, the raiders got togther and toasted their friends who passed with Gin. Each raider had a goblet and when they died, the Goblet would be placed upside down in the case.
This post was edited on 4/18/17 at 10:41 am
Posted on 4/18/17 at 11:49 am to Tigeralum2008
"Each year, the raiders got togther and toasted their friends who passed with Gin. Each raider had a goblet and when they died, the Goblet would be placed upside down in the case."
Salute!
LINK
Salute!
LINK
This post was edited on 4/18/17 at 11:53 am
Posted on 4/18/17 at 1:50 pm to ItzMe1972
Doolittle selected the 17th Bomb Group to provide the pool of volunteers, because they had the most experience in the new B-25 medium bomber. When he approached them with the plan for what was assumed to be a one-way suicide mission, the entire unit volunteered en masse.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 1:56 pm to ItzMe1972
His autobiography, "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again", was one of the best I have ever read.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 2:09 pm to ItzMe1972
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One pilot landed in a tree and, in what may be the only instance of a cigarette saving a person’s life, he lit up before cutting himself free and dropping to the ground. He finished smoking, tossed the still-glowing butt into the air, and watched in horror as it disappeared into the blackness far, far below. The tree that snagged his parachute stood on the edge of a thousand-foot cliff.
Posted on 4/18/17 at 2:09 pm to ItzMe1972
True story, my dad is good friends with Dick Cole, the last raider still alive. He talks to him about once a week. very interesting guy
Posted on 4/18/17 at 2:09 pm to ItzMe1972
Roosevelt said the bombers had taken off from “Shangri-La,” a fictional location in the 1933 novel “Lost Horizon."
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In 1944, anEssex Class aircraft carrier, CV-38, was named Shangri-La. It was nicknamed The Tokyo Express.
A friend's father died a few years back. He was a Naval Aviator in WWII and his duty stations battles he fought in were listed in his obituary. I was shocked to see the Shangri-La listed. I had never heard of it before. RIP Cmdr Bert Cox.
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In 1944, anEssex Class aircraft carrier, CV-38, was named Shangri-La. It was nicknamed The Tokyo Express.
A friend's father died a few years back. He was a Naval Aviator in WWII and his duty stations battles he fought in were listed in his obituary. I was shocked to see the Shangri-La listed. I had never heard of it before. RIP Cmdr Bert Cox.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:42 am to ItzMe1972
Good follow up. I wanted to go there but couldn't figure out how to spell Shangri' La. Somewhere in one of the bookcases I've got a hard back early printing of Lost Horizon among WWII volumes and related oddities.
OK book but better conversation starter. With it sits first edition first printing of Guadalcanal Diary.
I'm seeing all these because we're packing up to move back to BR after six year exile in Mississippi.
OK book but better conversation starter. With it sits first edition first printing of Guadalcanal Diary.
I'm seeing all these because we're packing up to move back to BR after six year exile in Mississippi.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 11:32 am to ItzMe1972
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