Me Too, plus I had a hard time buying fighter pilots flying B-25's off a carrier a few months later.
Me Too, plus I had a hard time buying fighter pilots flying B-25's off a carrier a few months later.
Whaddya mean, Sam, isn't flying an airplane just like driving a car - once you've driven one, you can drive them all? :)
Nevertheless, it happened. I was stationed at Eglin AFB, FL where the Doolittle Raiders trained as did the men from nearby Hurlburt Field for Desert 1. I attended USAF ROTC summer camp there in 1969. Army Rangers train there for water operations. We got to spend two days with the Rangers on the inflatable boats.
When I was stationed there in the early 80's, I had a party group out on my sailboat on the Santa Rosa sound and ran into the Ranger trainees and their instructors. The instructors appreciated the beers we tossed to them.