[sodpoodle]

Did not do little - he did so much more!!!!!!

The emai included some great photos, but I cannot post them. Sorry

[bigdaddy45]

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.

[PGR88]

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!

[gr8eman]

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!

[blueunicorn6]

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.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[NohSpinZone]

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.

[DesertRhino]

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.

[lgjhn23]

This was waaaaay back when men were men, and women were women.
Way before they allowed the mentally diseased out in the general public.

[Mouton]

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.

[crz]

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.

[exnavy]

The greatest generation...

[ken in texas]

I remember seeing the display of the Doolittle Raider Goblets at USAFA, A Raider's Toast: The Doolittle Raiders' Goblets.

[Dan in Wichita]

Just a few days ago on July 4th I had the opportunity to climb aboard a B-25. Sat in the front gunners seat and tried to imagine what it must have been like. Those men must have been limber to get around in that aircraft. It's tight! (especially for an old geezer like me.)

The whole thing inspired me so much, last Saturday night I watched "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" on Vudu.

[Nateman]

Did they ever open up the bottle?

[NonValueAdded]

God Bless them all.

[sjmjax]

Not ignoring the accomplishments nor sacrifices of Doolittle’s Raiders or others.

But what often gets me when I think of was was accomplished in those three years and realize that today it takes us three years to build a new highway off ramp!

[Vermont Lt]

Anything that includes “We the people” that isn’t the Constitution is hackneyed.

[Rebelbase]

Doolittle was an amazing man. He is the one who pioneered flying by instrument and tested it himself in the cockpit of a biplane that was covered in a hood so he could not see out.

[Rebelbase]

[Rebelbase]

This has to be from the movie.