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  • Family, friends remember Doolittle Raider

    01/20/2004 7:29:21 PM PST · by JCG · 44 replies · 443+ views
    The Joplin Globe ^ | January 20, 2004 | Andy Ostmeyer
    Family, friends remember Doolittle Raider Andy Ostmeyer Globe Staff Writer 1/20/04 Eighty men. Every one a volunteer. A daring raid. Beyond daring, even. Suicidal. Yet, it changed the course of a world war, and - who knows? - perhaps the course of history. Travis Hoover, who died Saturday, was one of 79 men who joined Lt. Col. James Doolittle on a bombing raid over Japan on April 18, 1942. Hoover and his wife, Kay, who died in 1990, moved to Joplin in 1988. On Monday afternoon, Beverly Zerkel, Hoover's stepdaughter, spoke from her Joplin home about the man most consider...