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1 of 2 remaining Doolittle Raiders dies in Montana
(Fredricksberg, VA) Free-Lance Star ^ | June 22, 2016 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/22/2016 6:23:57 PM PDT by abb

Edited on 06/22/2016 10:08:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP)

(Excerpt) Read more at fredericksburg.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doolittle; usnavy; war; ww2
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1 posted on 06/22/2016 6:23:57 PM PDT by abb
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

ping


2 posted on 06/22/2016 6:24:50 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: abb

One left. Time to open that famous bottle and drink a toast.


3 posted on 06/22/2016 6:28:45 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: abb

Wow. Just wow.


4 posted on 06/22/2016 6:30:37 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: abb
Rest in Peace, now the entire crew of the Ruptured Duck can properly celebrate, this book is probably one of the best stories of the Doolittle mission, told by Captain Ted Lawson:

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Do NOT waste your time with the newer remake of 'Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, stick with the original starring Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum and Spency Tracy. FAR superior.
5 posted on 06/22/2016 6:30:40 PM PDT by mkjessup (Mop Up *ZOT* operations are still underway. See a subversive anti-Trump troll? Notify the mods!)
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To: abb

Where do we get such men? Thank you, sir, may you be eternally blessed.

I watched the last salute broadcast live. Moved to tears to see these men. Very tough to see them go.


6 posted on 06/22/2016 6:32:09 PM PDT by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: mkjessup

Do not watch Ted Turner’s colorized version of “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” They have the Army Air Corps uniforms in Marine Corps forest green.


7 posted on 06/22/2016 6:32:49 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: SueRae

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=42525

Ronald Reagan
Radio Address to the Nation on Armed Forces Day
May 15, 1982

In James Michener’s book “The Bridges at Toko-Ri,” he writes of an officer waiting through the night for the return of planes to a carrier as dawn is coming on. And he asks, “Where do we find such men?” Well, we find them where we’ve always found them. They are the product of the freest society man has ever known. They make a commitment to the military—make it freely, because the birthright we share as Americans is worth defending. God bless America.


8 posted on 06/22/2016 6:34:30 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: abb

God bless him.


9 posted on 06/22/2016 6:35:58 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: forgotten man

Never have, never will.

For that movie, black and white is best.


10 posted on 06/22/2016 6:36:39 PM PDT by mkjessup (Mop Up *ZOT* operations are still underway. See a subversive anti-Trump troll? Notify the mods!)
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To: abb

http://www.doolittleraider.com/raiders/cole.htm

Info on 100 year old Lt. Col. Dick Cole, the last Doolittle airman.

Picture of Thatcher is down aways, from 2006.

Dick Cole usually comes to this event on Georgetown,DE every year. He is ambulatory and very self effacing as he tells the tale of the Doolittle Raid and he answers questions from the crowd, which I have witnessed myself:

Wings and Wheels 2016:

http://www.wings-wheels.com/


11 posted on 06/22/2016 6:38:54 PM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: mkjessup

I did not know there had been a remake.


12 posted on 06/22/2016 6:41:25 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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13 posted on 06/22/2016 6:43:06 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: mkjessup

“Do NOT waste your time with the newer remake of ‘Thirty Seconds over Tokyo . . . “

Every time the “filmmakers” of today remake one of the old movies, it is a dismal failure. Why do they continue trying something that is impossible?


14 posted on 06/22/2016 6:44:10 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: abb

79 more shining stars in Heaven!


15 posted on 06/22/2016 6:45:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: I cannot think of a name

The remaining survivors did that a few years back.


16 posted on 06/22/2016 6:49:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Old Grumpy

“Do NOT waste your time with the newer remake of ‘Thirty Seconds over Tokyo . . . “
And they probably rewrote the story where the Tusceegee airmen flew the B-25’s right?


17 posted on 06/22/2016 6:51:05 PM PDT by 9422WMR (Look, we are led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or hes got something else in mind!)
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To: abb

Yet another member of the Race of Giants that we Lesser Children are descended from leaves us.

The coming storm will tell us if we have what they had.


18 posted on 06/22/2016 6:52:13 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: yarddog

There wasn’t a remake per se, the Doolittle Raid (or at least a highly fictionalized version of it) was included in Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor”

With Alec Baldwin playing Jimmy Doolittle. Enough said.


19 posted on 06/22/2016 6:52:25 PM PDT by tanknetter
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20 posted on 06/22/2016 6:52:26 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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