Did they ever open up the bottle?
Posted on 07/13/2021 11:45:17 AM PDT by sodpoodle
The emai included some great photos, but I cannot post them. Sorry
I went to one of their final reunions at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio. Were only about 5 left at the time. Great experience.
A P-51 mustang, the most advanced fighter of its time, cost something like $50,000 per unit.
If you believe government inflation statistics, that would be $760,000 dollars today.
I would buy one!
Know the story well. Fortunately I have 2 of the pencil drawings that artist Robert Taylor did of the B-25Bs to commemorate the Raiders, with all the survivors signatures on each one! My most prized possessions!
During the fight at Benghazi, the F-16s in Italy couldn’t take off because they didn’t know what Libya’s Air Force was doing.
Bttt.
5.56mm
The road into Oakland International Airport is called Doolittle Drive. I fear that the race-obsessed commies around here will want replace that with someone of “color”, maybe someone like a Tuskeegee Airman.
BTW, James Doolittle has a direct connection with that area as he was born in Alameda, an island that borders where the airport exists today.
If you visit the USS Hornet in Alameda, it is right beside the pier where the B-25s were hoisted by crane up onto the deck. There is a marker there. They were taxied over from the runway area.
This was waaaaay back when men were men, and women were women.
Way before they allowed the mentally diseased out in the general public.
The workhorses were the P47s and F4Us.
Every single fighter pilot flying jets today would give just about anything to fly solo in one of those.
What is also interesting is the number of Chinese who lost their lives helping the surviving crews get to safety and afterwards when the Japs destroyed that entire area.
The removal of Doolittle's name is inevitable. However, the street may be named simply Oakland Airport Drive. Lindbergh Field in San Diego is now simply the San Diego Airport and the Bob Hope Airport is now the Burbank Airport.
Took off from a carrier. That alone took balls.
To this day, when you talk to any former carrier hand, they would have loved to have been there to see that.
The greatest generation...
I was told they never got approval to take off!
It was not for lack of courageous pilots. It was for lack of, leadership, will and political courage
Therein, I think, is what the difference is between leadership then and today
Did they ever open up the bottle?
My father flew fighters during the war and a few years afterward; but he LOVED the B-25. I never asked him for details of why. RIP, Dad.
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