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To: Eric in the Ozarks

One of the Doolittle Raids' POWs stuck around after the war and converted Pearl Harbor attacker Air Wing Commander Fuchida
to Christianity.


18 posted on 03/27/2007 6:16:21 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

Doolittle visited Japan several times in the 1950s when I was an Army Brat. My dad got to shake his had at one of the functions where he made an appearance. Dad was from his era and flew C-46s in the CBI, which was largely a forgotten or overlooked piece of the action. Hump pilots were a tough bunch, but flying a loaded bomber from a stubby WW II carrier took real brass.


19 posted on 03/27/2007 6:34:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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