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  • Utah Vet Who Fought Back Against Japan Dies (member of the famed Doolittle Raiders)

    03/27/2007 4:02:38 AM PDT · by ajolympian2004 · 19 replies · 1,080+ views
    KUTV News 2 ^ | Sunday March 25th, 2007
    Lt. Col. Chase J. Nielsen, a Utah man and member of the famed "Doolittle Raiders" who bombed Japan in 1942 -- in a retaliation attack from Pearl Harbor -- passed away on Friday at the age of 90. Nielsen was a navigator in one of the most daring air raids in American history, when 16 B-25 bombers took off from an aircraft carrier and bombed Tokyo on April 18, 1942. Nielsen and his crew -- named "Crew 6," because of the order in which they left the aircraft carrier -- ditched the plane off the coast of China after it...