Thursday, April 19, 2012

Coverage: 70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid


Surviving WWII Raiders in Ohio mark 70 years - Dayton Daily News | A flyover by World War II bomber planes, Chinese visitors and a memorial ceremony with four Doolittle's Raiders helped mark the 70th anniversary Wednesday of the daring U.S. air attack on Japan...

Crowd gathers to watch history - Springfield News Sun | Bill Lackey/Staff Photo Twenty vintage B-25 bombers line up for takeoff Tuesday at Grimes Field in Urbana as they depart for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the Doolittle Raiders Reunion. The planes have been staging in Urbana throughout the...

Doolittle's Raid survivors' 70th reunion in Ohio - Review seeker | 5 survivors of daring WWII Doolittle's Raiders to toast "those who have gone" at 70th reunion By The Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) ' The last five survivors of the Doolittle Tokyo Raid gather this week in Ohio for their 70th anniversary reunion ...

Twenty B-25 bombers turn museum runway into WWII squadron - Springfield News Sun
Matzelle flew aboard a B-25 Mitchell, one of a fleet of 20 of the aging World War II-era aircraft to land in streaming morning sunlight on the runway at the National Museum of the US Air Force to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Dolittle Tokyo ...

Darlington Doolittle Raider: Lt. Billy Farrow still remembered - SCNow | DARLINGTON – Lt. William G. “Billy” Farrow never attended a Doolittle's Raiders anniversary in person, but his indomitable spirit has been to each and every one. The 70th anniversary celebration of the famed group runs through Friday this week in ...

Doolittle Raider visits museum for 70th anniversary event from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Maj. Thomas C. Griffin (right), one of five surviving members of the famous Doolittle Raiders, chats with crew members of the Miss Hap B-25 bomber at the National Museum of the United States Air Force April 17, 2012. Griffin and other Raiders are at the museum this week for the 70th anniversary of the famous Doolittle Raid. On April 18, 1942, 80 airmen took off in B-25 bombers from the aircraft carrier Hornet on a top-secret mission to bomb Japan. Some 20 B-25s gathered at the museum and will take part in a memorial flyover April 18...

Celebrating "Doolittle's Raiders," who some say changed the course of World War II - CBS News | But 70 years ago Wednesday, 80 men who came to be known as "Doolittle's Raiders" did the impossible, and helped turn the tide. CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports that the Raiders changed the course of World War II. The Doolittle Tokyo Raid was ...

Timeless Voices - Dick Cole from eaavideo.org | Dick Cole was copilot for Col. Jimmy Doolittle when Doolittle led a force of 16 B-25 bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to bomb targets in Japan on April 18, 1942 - the first attack on Japanese soil during World War II.

A toast, if you will, to late Doolittle raider Frank Kappeler - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | BY CHRIS SMITH/The Press Democrat The last five surviving Doolittle Raiders will be together in Ohio today to mark the 70th anniversary of the audacious aerial attack on Japan that greatly boosted Americans' morale just four months into World War II...

City Council commends B-25 event organizers - Urbana Daily Citizen | Noting that the surviving Doolittle Raiders will be escorted north on Main Street Thursday for a private 9 am breakfast at Grimes Field, City Director Kerry Brugger encouraged people to "get out on Main Street and give them a good Urbana welcome...

Podcast: Doolittle Raiders Reunion - Warbird Radio | Warbird Radio is set to broadcast the massive Doolittle Tokyo Raiders B-25 Memorial Fly-over ... Listeners will hear everything! We’ll have team coverage from several points on the airfield (including the takeoff position)...

Podcast: Doolittle Raiders Reunion Coverages Continues With NMUSAF Director Gen. Jack Hudson (USAF RET) – Warbird Radio | Our coverage of the 70th Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Reunion continues with the Director of the National Museum of the United States Air Force – Lieutenant General John “Jack” Hudson...

Local Men Tied To Doolittle - Wheeling News Register | According to information provided by Wheeling resident Lee Kelvington, Howard ''Dutch'' Kindleberger, who was born and raised in North Wheeling, designed the B-25 bomber used in the raid. And fellow Wheeling resident and friend of Kelvington's, ...

Joplin family has connection to Doolittle's Raiders - Joplin Globe | James Doolittle, the crew members — who became known as Doolittle's Raiders — were forced to take off sooner than planned when their carrier was spotted by a Japanese fishing boat. The planes reached their targets, dropped their bombs and then,...

Denver veteran aboard USS Hornet watched Doolittle Raiders take off for 1942 raid - Denver Post | At the time the Doolittle Raiders took off, American morale was at rock bottom because of Pearl Harbor. "Nobody had a clue in the world how that could have happened," said Plybon's wife, Dorothy, who was then attending high school in the San Luis ...

Doolittle Raid — 70th anniversary from Travel for Aircraft | Doolittle Raid — 70th anniversary This day is the 70th anniversary of the famous raid led by Lt. Col. James “Jimmy” Doolittle. It was an unconventional strike of land based medium bombers launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Sixteen specially modified North American B-25 Mitchell bombers flew the mission — hardly a significant military force — but they accomplished [...]

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