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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
11ESCAPE
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.
Own our Emmy-winning Documentary
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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