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Doolittle ’ s R aiders : A FINAL TOAST
Spring 2017 | Issue 16
In This Issue ...
5News from the world war II veter ans committee & the american veter ans center Including the recent 19th Annual Veterans Conference .
7A Mission Fulfilled The Last of the Doolittle Raiders Recounts their Legendary Mission , 75 Years Later
From Lt . Colonel Richard E . Cole
Seventy-five years ago this spring – April 18 , 1942 – 80 men on 16 planes did the unthinkable : they bombed the Japanese home islands mere months after Pearl Harbor . Of the 80 Doolittle Raiders , today , just one survives . This is his story .
FROM WEST VIRGINIA
A Pearl Harbor Veteran Remembers
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From Adone “ Cal ” Calderone More than 75 years later , it still lives in infamy . The attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the U . S . into World War II , and changed the world forever . This is the story of one sailor ’ s service aboard USS West Virginia , his fight to save the ship , and his harrowing escape .
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Doolittle ’ s R aiders : A FINAL TOAST
SPRING 2017
It was 80 men , 16 planes , and one mission that would inspire a nation and change the course of a war .
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