[Homer_J_Simpson]

The N.Y. Times ran some stories on the one-year anniversary of the raid. We included some of them in the WWII + 70 Years threads, beginning with today's April 18, 1943 thread. The articles are on page 10. In the April 22 issue they broke the story that some of the captured Doolittle raiders had been executed. That will be our lead next Monday.

[Retain Mike]

I don't know it is true, but the captain of my ship said that when the B-29’s if their primary and secondary targets were socked in they went to the location of the city where the pilots had been executed and unloaded all their bombs before returning.