Posted on 07/04/2017 4:09:18 PM PDT by ColdOne
President Trump spoke by phone with the last surviving member of the famed Doolittle Raiders to thank the 101-year-old veteran for his service as the nation marks Independence Day.
The White House said Mr. Trump offered his best wishes and support to retired Lt. Col. Dick Cole, a World War II veteran who was recently injured.
The president congratulated Lt. Col. Cole on his courage, thanked him for his service, and wished him a full recovery in advance of his upcoming 102nd birthday, the White House said of the Sunday phone call.
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I’m sure owebama regularly did this sort of thing, right? Right???
This is what a REAL President does...
Thank you for posting this story.
Doolittle Raiders ping
Presidential!
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Thanks for the ping. Nice video at the link.
101. Not bad for someone who didn’t know if he’d see April 19th 1942.
Gosh, he was Col. Doolittle’s copilot. Gives me chills. I read “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” at an impressionable age, like 9.
While at Eglin the Raiders practiced taking off from a marked line. I can’t recall the distance.
On one of the TV history type channels they had the owner of one of the surviving B-25s try to duplicate the feat. He revved the engines and let it roll.
He could not do what those WWII pilots did. He did say they had 115 octane gasoline back then.
strong wind down the carrier deck helps a lot
They cut lots of weight also
In the film of the actual takeoff taken from a nearby cruiser, it appears some of them almost lift straight up off the deck. I guess that is where the expression, “turn into the wind” comes from.
I know they removed a lot of stuff to save weight but wonder how much they regained due to extra fuel tanks being added.
If I remember correctly, the gun turrets were removed and replaced with fuel tanks.
Send a small Carrier up the Potomac, DC is more dangerous to US citizens than Raqqua.
Thanks for the ping.
I would they’d have hit the emperor.
“Turn him into an asset”, my ass-et.
Marks a welcome change from the previous administration, which would have placed a call to General Tojo to apologize for being mean to him.
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