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To: DUMBGRUNT

My dad was a Hump Pilot in the China Burma India Campaign. He got to meet a couple of the Doolittle men when they toured Japan .


47 posted on 04/18/2022 11:36:17 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.q at)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The book and film “#0 Seconds Over Tokyo does a pretty good job telling the story of the Doolittle Raid.


50 posted on 04/18/2022 11:43:35 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“My dad was a Hump Pilot in the China Burma India Campaign.”

Another job that required fierce inner resolve and balls of steel. Many an air crew perished in crashes flying The Hump.


53 posted on 04/18/2022 11:51:15 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Sex is like the game of Bridge......if you don't have a good partner you better have a good hand.)
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