Boulder WWII hero Bill Bower dies at 93 ( last of Doolittle's Raiders )

Camera ^ | 01/10/2011 | Amy Bounds

[mware]

Wow, Dick Winters and now him. We are losing that Greatest Generation rapidly.

[magslinger]

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[george76]

Thanks.

Should be : the last surviving pilot of Doolittle’s Raiders

[Doogle]

...they just had a series running on the Military channel about them over the last two weeks on my cable system....

[ken5050]

What is most remarkable, IMHO, about the now 5 surviving Raiders si that two of them, Hite, and Griffin, were POWs..Hite was held by the Japanese for 40 months, in what were absolutly brutal conditions. Griffin was a prisoner of the Germans for 2 years. A vast majority of POWs, especially those of the Japanese, suffered in their later years as a result of the conditions and brutalization. That these two still are alive, after so many years.. is a tribute to their will, strength, and God’s grace.

[ken5050]

What is most remarkable, IMHO, about the now 5 surviving Raiders is that two of them, Hite, and Griffin, were POWs..Hite was held by the Japanese for 40 months, in what were absolutly brutal conditions. Griffin was a prisoner of the Germans for 2 years. A vast majority of POWs, especially those of the Japanese, suffered in their later years as a result of the conditions and brutalization. That these two still are alive, after so many years.. is a tribute to their will, strength, and God’s grace.

[onedoug]

Gutsy bunch.

RIP Bill Bower.

Hand salute.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

How sad.....

All the glasses are upside down. And so is America along with them. It’s especially sad that these great heroes had to watch the country they fought and died so courageously for, degraded itself into what it is today. It’s beyond shameful!

And not one mention from this so called “president”.

[Doogle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTyJPLek94

[WOBBLY BOB]

I had the priveldege of talking to Griffin for about an hour
some years ago .

Fascinating stories.

[USNBandit]

Years ago when I was stationed in Japan I was invited over to a Japanese friend's house for dinner. The mother-in-law lived with them and through her granddaughter she recounted growing up during WWII. She had lived in Yokohama her whole live and she recounted how shocked the Japanese people were that the Americans could attack Japanese cities. It really shattered their confidence during a string of victories.

A really great out of the box type operation. Like crossing the Delaware on Christmas Eve or placing guns on Dorchester Heights to force the British out of Boston.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[onedoug]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww58PQ2_LVY

The whole movie!

Thanks for your service.

[ken5050]

If you want a great read..Bob Greene’s bio of Paul Tibbets