Doolittle Raiders coming home to South Carolina

The Greenville News ^ | March 23, 2002 | Dan Hoover

[aomagrat]

Lt. Horace Crouch, "Sally" to buddies since his early teen-age years in Columbia, hunkered down in the bombardier's position in the Plexiglas nose of a B-25 bomber and watched anxiously for the USS Hornet's deckmaster to signal pilot Richard Joyce.

[aomagrat]

God bless these brave heros.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Amen.

[Uncle George]

This reunion should be put on prime time FOX and all the other TV in a grand fashion. All these heros will be soon gone so nows the time to recognize their courage.

[VOA]

Doolittle, an old-school, try-anything, leather jacket pilot who learned to fly in
an open cockpit, would receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. He died in 1993 at age 97.

I remember reading an article on the raid in the Smithsonian Magazine.
Once Doolittle got to China, he sat for a bit next to the wreckage of his B-25 and
said to himself something like "They're going to court-martial me for this".

I suspect that was one of few occassions when Doolittle was totally wrong.

I still can't help groaning to think that Alec Baldwin got to portray Doolittle in
"Pearl Harbor".

[arly]

My hat is off to these bomber crews! It would be a great privilage to sit down and talk with anyone of these hero's!..

I would have loved seeing the movie that they just made about the Dolittle raids but it is a slap in there face to have Alec Baldwin cast as Gen. Dolittle so I will pass.

[VOA]

This reunion should be put on prime time FOX and all the other TV in a grand fashion.
All these heros will be soon gone so nows the time to recognize their courage.

I'll repeat your message...with the hopes some FOX-connected lurker might be around.

[Uncle George]

ALL BUMP THIS TO THE TOP REPEATEDLY.

[denydenydeny]

Soon, those remaining will return

Terrible. Don't these people realize they're violating the *gasp* NAACP boycott?

[VOA]

To all lurkers and posters:

If you haven't ever gotten to see a B-25 up close, this event would be a knock-out!

I got to see one at the "Salute To Veterans" airshow put on every Memorial Day in
Columbia, MO.

The B-25 makes a "beautiful noise" and just has about a sharp a look as you can get
out of a multi-engine plane.
There's a reason Mel Gibson made a B-25 a co-star in "Forever Young"!

(OK, I got to see a B-17 at that show and it's very cool as well.)

[Uncle George]

I still love "30 seconds over Tokyo" where a REAL man portrays Jimmy , Spencer Tracy.

[arly]

Yeah I agree Uncle George 30 seconds over Tokyo is a great movie!

[arly]

Ohhh I just thought of something!.. Don't these war hero's realize that there is a Boycott going on down in SC.? (sarcasm)

[backhoe]

Thanks for the post- those were real men, and real heroes.

[VOA]

Pardon the ping if it's an intrusion, but I did find the website for the event.
If your computer is sound-enabled, it opens with a nice sound file of a B-25 flying past
(I presume it's a B-25!)

The site is at
http://www.doolittleraidersreunion.com/

[WhatPriceFreedom?]

What do you wanna bet this gets no media coverage? The media is too busy chasing Hollywood gossip stories and minorities who are persecuted because they don't get special treatment.

[VOA]

Bump

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

[VOA]

http://www.doolittleraidersreunion.com/

(just repeating for the crowd)

[aomagrat]

60th Doolittle Raiders Reunion

Cool site! Thanks.

[cynicom]

backhoe...

That was a different era and a far different breed of man.