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To: Rummyfan

They were B-25 Mitchell medium bombers. I hope they show tribute to “The Ruptured Duck” which was Doolittle’s plane.


21 posted on 08/18/2023 5:28:31 PM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: Ed Condon

The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber named the “Ruptured Duck” was the mount of 1st LT Ted W Lawson, who authored the book and was the subject of the movie, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” one of the greatest WW II films of all time, starring Van Johnson and Spencer Tracy.

I don’t think that Doolittle’s bird had any designation other then Plane #1.


24 posted on 08/18/2023 5:42:10 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: Ed Condon

“They were B-25 Mitchell medium bombers. I hope they show tribute to ‘The Ruptured Duck’ which was Doolittle’s plane.”

No, it was Ted Lawson’s plane.


32 posted on 08/18/2023 6:16:31 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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