I can hear the distant roar of engines in the distance of time.
A great tribute thread to General Doolittle and his legendary raid over Tokyo,
Posted on 02/26/2017 5:13:18 PM PST by Jeff Head
Great stuff Jeff! Thanks!
I highly recommend James M. Scott’s book “Target Tokyo”. I read it last year and it is complete in depth account of the raid and it’s aftermath.
Scott’s book covered that but pointed out that they caught that mistake and were able to fix a number of them. I believe there was one plane that got loaded on the carrier that was supposed to be launched out at sea and fly back and not be in the raid. The Pilot and crew wanted to to go so bad that they went and their plane may not have been retrofitted on the engines.
Amazing work, Jeff. Just amazing.
L
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Congratulations Jeff on your article and your model to commemorate the Doolittle Raiders!
Like you say, they are all heroes.
Thanks Jeff...this is an awesome tribute post.
My brother used a couple of my models in a business class. He sold the F/A-18 to an imaginary country.
“only the beginning.”
Where has that spirit gone, America?
TC
I can hear the distant roar of engines in the distance of time.
A great tribute thread to General Doolittle and his legendary raid over Tokyo,
Thank you, what a great post. Fantastic work on the model.
One of my childhood heroes was Billy Mitchell, so the first model I bought and built was, of course the Mitchell. And that in turn led to my choice of the Doolittle Raid as the topic of a grade school report, etc.... and a balsa wood bomber model, and so on. I was a weird little girl. Not the best model maker, but I can appreciate good work when I see it.
Thanks again. It’s good to bring these heroes up again and again, you never know when a young impressionable kid may come along.
Very nice model work. I have a box of models to complete, but not the time at the moment. I remember reading Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo while in elementary. Thank God for men like these, we will never see the likes of them again.
God bless you for doing so.
Very few people know about that battle off Samar, and the heroic efforts not only of the Taffy Jeep carriers, but particularly the destroyers who convinced the Japanese Admiral that he had run into the main force of cruisers and battleships...and so he turned away when he was on the cusp of a great victory at the anchorage for the invasion force of the Philippines.
It was too late for it to have changed the outcome of the war...but a lot of Americans would have died, and it would have delayed things.
Very few people appreciate how hard fought the war in the Pacific was, and how, early on, what a near thing it was.
My Dad, who was a combat office in the navy in the PTO in the war, made sure his sons were not among those who did not understand.
God bless you for doing so.
Very few people know about that battle off Samar, and the heroic efforts not only of the Taffy Jeep carriers, but particularly the destroyers who convinced the Japanese Admiral that he had run into the main force of cruisers and battleships...and so he turned away when he was on the cusp of a great victory at the anchorage for the invasion force of the Philippines.
It was too late for it to have changed the outcome of the war...but a lot of Americans would have died, and it would have delayed things.
Very few people appreciate how hard fought the war in the Pacific was, and how, early on, what a near thing it was.
My Dad, who was a combat office in the navy in the PTO in the war, made sure his sons were not among those who did not understand.
I cannot saty what the specifics are, but there is no doubt that God looked out or them...and Cole is still here to make sure we do not forget...and I am making sure my own kids and family never does either.
The Bunker Hill’s experience due to Kamikzis was similar...but as hard to believe as it is...not as horrible as USS Franklin.
Both ships were svaed by the heroisn of the men who fought those fires and saed those ships.
NO ONE does damage control like the US Navy...no one. And it is still true today.
Out of a total crew of 2.600, Franklin had 800 killed and almost 500 wounded...about half of the crew.
Bunker Hill had 390 killed and almost 300 hundred wounded.
YEt both carriers survuived and were repaired.
World War II was hard fought against a very dedicated, capable, and ferocious enemy...who were dedicated to a totally racist and tyrannical system. As with the Nazis...they HAD to be put down hard.
...and we did.
The Bunker Hill’s experience due to Kamikzis was similar...but as hard to believe as it is...not as horrible as USS Franklin.
Both ships were svaed by the heroisn of the men who fought those fires and saed those ships.
NO ONE does damage control like the US Navy...no one. And it is still true today.
Out of a total crew of 2.600, Franklin had 800 killed and almost 500 wounded...about half of the crew.
Bunker Hill had 390 killed and almost 300 hundred wounded.
YEt both carriers survuived and were repaired.
World War II was hard fought against a very dedicated, capable, and ferocious enemy...who were dedicated to a totally racist and tyrannical system. As with the Nazis...they HAD to be put down hard.
...and we did.
Amen...and understndably and justifiably so.
We have just as strong of heroes fighting the tyranical islaic terrorists today...and re-upping over and over again to help put it down.
Now if our leaders will just get their head in the game.
Thank you my friend.
I love doing them...and it is therapeutic to me, particularly at this stage of the cancer.
That did my heart good. Thank you!
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