The Doolittle Raid 70th Anniversary
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*clank* of the first order
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — April 26, 2012 @ 1:04 pm
B-25 Mitchells off the deck of the Hornet (IIRC). To maybe land in China.
Yeah. Serious clank.
It started out as a SNAFU, but they fingered it out.
Comment by mojo — April 26, 2012 @ 1:17 pm
I got something in my eye…
Duty, honor, country
God bless them all.
Comment by Stick — April 26, 2012 @ 2:36 pm
One indication of the “Bootleg whiskey in a brand name bottle!” aspect of all this was: One of the B25 pilots forgot to put his fucking flaps down for the takeoff! The bomber dropped off of the bow in a near full stall, while the landing gear(high drag…) was slowly retracting. His altitude above the white caps was estimated by the copilot and the Carrier Air Boss to be a RCH, give or take!
Comment by Colonel Jerry USMC — April 26, 2012 @ 2:40 pm
Remind the high school and college graduates that neither Rex Harrison or *cough* eddie murphy participated in this event.
Comment by mech — April 26, 2012 @ 2:41 pm
God bless them all.
I am humbled by their sense of duty.
Comment by Melissa In Texas — April 26, 2012 @ 2:46 pm
Quit a few from our area were there. We have a big VA hospital here and the veteran organizations do a lot for the vets.
Comment by geezerette — April 26, 2012 @ 5:29 pm
Heroes.
Comment by Thomas M. — April 26, 2012 @ 6:18 pm
GrandpaP was on the Hornet, but he wasn’t one of the raiders.
Comment by PatrickP — April 26, 2012 @ 6:36 pm
Can’t believe the History Channel or one of the other cable channels didn’t cover this! They had over 20 of the last surviving B-25s fly into the USAF Museum in Dayton for the ceremony.
Comment by TimO — April 26, 2012 @ 7:09 pm
Ranks are thinning fast.
Thanks for the reminder TUA.
Comment by dick, not quite dead white guy — April 26, 2012 @ 7:13 pm
Sorry, ladies, but balls of steel. I am thankful to live in a country where brave men are everywhere and willing to risk their lives for cowards like me.
Comment by snap-e-tom — April 26, 2012 @ 7:35 pm
Did he manage to go up and see the museum?
I’d actually like to go for another visit soon.
Plus I hear it’s haunted ;-)
Comment by The Ugly American — April 26, 2012 @ 8:11 pm
Where do we find such men?
Comment by kinlaw — April 26, 2012 @ 10:06 pm
^Kinlaw, I think the majority were from Texas. But last week I would go out of my way to let anyone who’d listen to me know that Gen. Doolittle’s bombardier, SSgt Fred Braemer, was a graduate of Ballard High School in Seattle. Doolittle’s plane was the first to drop its bombs on Tokyo, if not the entire mission.
Comment by accipiter NW — April 26, 2012 @ 11:44 pm
And its late, I meant Texas represented the highest number of Raiders. Something like 12 out of the 80.
Thanks for the post TUA.
Comment by accipiter NW — April 27, 2012 @ 12:06 am
BTW:
Military Judge refuses to toss charge of “aiding the enemy” in Manning case.
“Bend over, boy.”
Comment by mojo — April 27, 2012 @ 8:10 am