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Doolittle Raid - 75 Years Ago Today

Of course the media made a bigger thing out of the damage done than it was but Dad said it was the shot in the arm that America needed! God bless the generation that saw their duty and did it!
Ted
 
11 B-25's overflew the USAF Museum today in Dayton, marking the 75th Anniversary. They originally had 17 scheduled, but a mixture of weather and some technical/engine issues prevented some from making it. The 11 Mitchells that attended were - "Miss Mitchell", "Betty's Dream", "Panchito", "Miss Hap", "Semper Fi", "Devil Dog", "Champaign Gal", "Georgie's Gal", "Yankee Warrior", "Show Me", and "Barbie III". The B-25 "God and Country" also made it to Urbana, prior to the event, together with the 11 others, but it wasn't able to participate in the Dayton gathering/flyover.

EAA announced today that they are working on having at least 16 B-25's at Oshkosh this summer - all 16+ B-25's will be scheduled to arrive during/fly in the warbirds airshow portion of Tuesday, July 25th, and then they will be re-enacting the Doolittle Raid to start the night airshow on Wednesday, July 26th. Meanwhile, they will be parked in the warbird area of Oshkosh. So-far, "Panchito", "Briefing Time", "Yankee Warrior", " Miss Hap", "Barbie III", "Devil Dog" and "Miss Mitchell" are among those confirmed.
 
75 years. A long time. When I think back to when I was a wee lad of 10, 1942 was a mere 30 years in the past. A war in which my dad fought. How old was Mr. Cole in 1942? Jesus. A brave bunch. They all were.
 
PRB said:
75 years. A long time. When I think back to when I was a wee lad of 10, 1942 was a mere 30 years in the past. A war in which my dad fought. How old was Mr. Cole in 1942? Jesus. A brave bunch. They all were.
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sohewouldhavebeen26?...thatwasoldforthenwasntit?...imeaniveheardwheretheycalledaguytheoldmanorgrampsandhewouldbarelyb30
 
Nice photo P.:encouragement:



Bomber_12th said:
EAA announced today that they are working on having at least 16 B-25's at Oshkosh this summer - all 16+ B-25's will be scheduled to arrive during/fly in the warbirds airshow portion of Tuesday, July 25th, and then they will be re-enacting the Doolittle Raid to start the night airshow on Wednesday, July 26th.
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Would love to be there to see that.
 
These are the folks that inspired me to start this project, though with mine, from the beginning to now has been longer than the entire war.

- Ivan.
 

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