The Tokyo Sixteen (5 Viewers)

[Geert]

Geert submitted a new resource:

The Tokyo Sixteen - The Heroes of Doolittle's Raid on Japan in 1942 - Biographies of the sixteen pilots.

This work presents sixteen concise biographies of the pilots who flew the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. air attack on Japan in April 1942. Drawing on primary sources and historical research, it explores their backgrounds, training, and wartime experiences.

I'm an amateur historian with a particular focus on the Second World War, I experienced a brain haemorrhage in April 2022. Encouraged by my doctors to remain mentally active as part of his cognitive rehabilitation, he turned to a subject...

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[MIflyer]

Very good! My high school math and mechanical drawing teacher, Horance "Sally" Crouch, was Bomb/Nav on Plane No 10, Jone's aircraft. I was pleased to be able to thank him for what I learned in his classes and tell him of my own USAF career before he died.