A Toast to the Doolitle Raiders

[Airrace7]

Even though I can't be a part of the 70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raiders that were a part of that audacious aerial attack on Japan help me today toast the 75 men that in 1942 volunteered for a mission to bomb Japan that have died.

The last five survivors will raise their silver engraved goblets toady at Wright Patterson Air Force in Dayton, Ohio in honor of their crew mates.

GREAT JOB GUYS, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED!

[MustangFan]

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Hear, hear!!

To all the Raiders, past and present, congratulations on a job well done.

[Daver]

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Cheers!

[Lockheed Bob]

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Great Honor to all those that were there. We will have (Hopefully) a B25 at the Western Warbird Museum on June 1,2 & 3. Museum will be having a Jet Blast progam on those days. St. George,UT airport. The B25 will be giving rides for $395. Retired AF Col. Jack Hunter is the owner of the museum. He has 2 Mig 15s,1 Mig 17 & a Provost trainer.

[V1670]

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To the Doolittle Raiders; some of the most courageous guys ever.

[planecrazy2]

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Cheers and thank you to the greatest generation!

Glen

[Coyote Chris]

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They were and are heros, with gonads the size of grapefruits.
I also drink a toast to the Chineese who helped them, and I spit on the cowardly Japanese Army and their corrupt code of "morals"...
Chris whose uncle went to Japan after the war and prosecuted some of the SOBs.
In Doolittle’s Tokyo Raiders, Glines includes a chapter entitled “The Chinese Help…And Suffer the Consequences.” This chapter describes the horrific punishments and deaths the Japanese inflicted on the Chinese for helping the Doolittle Raiders. In one account, the Japanese captured the man who had harbored Lieutenant Watson, “wrapped him up in some blankets, poured the oil of the lamp on him and obliged his wife to set fire to the human torch.” Glines includes this example to show the swift and horrific revenge the Japanese pursued as a result of the Doolittle Raid. This shows that the impact of the Doolittle Raid was not all positive. In his 1984 book, Glines provides even more details and statistics regarding the plight of the Chinese. He uses Chiang Kai Shek’s statements, government records, and General Claire Chennault’s observations, to portray the cruel three-month campaign that claimed the lives of approximately two hundred fifty thousand Chinese.