Col. Doolittle ( at that time) trained at the newly Air Base there as the planned the raid and trained pilots.
Their are many places where these great men ate, drank and practiced bombing. The golf course now was the bombing course in a area in Florida that is flat its a neat course to play when you think your playing a mountain course its has some many elevation changes because of the bombing.
Hi Scobby 321;
Yes, I know the area very well. I was stationed at NAS Pensacola and NAS Jacksonville years back....
I loved to go to Eglin and Hurlburt. Had AF friends there...
Those men were heroes, of course, they would never claim that title. But they were. Much like our servicemen and women in Iraq and that Godforsaken Afghanistan. May he watch over and protect them.