When I read about this raid last weekend, I knew that this was special. The courage and heart those men had when those engines started up must have been through the roof! I was really moved by their story of what they did in their lives. I read about one of the survivors that was captured, went back to Japan as a missionary for 30 years! That's just amazing. Or how the ones that made it to china and then back to US continued to fight in the war over Europe to be captured by the Germans and still survive the war.
Hell, they never took off from a carrier before, not even during practice. Doolittle must have been very confident to be the first one, and to do it in bad weather amoung many other factors. It's just amazing as to what they did and why they did it despite the immense odds of living through it. Their leader was an incredible human being. Wish I could have met him in real life. Maybe someone could get one or two of the Doolittle raiders to the AH Con as a guest.
Guppy, this is your fault! Thanks for always helping us all out with remembering history.
Brooke, I listened to a few hours of songs on monday night while I did research.
Many of us lost hours of sleep that Tuesday night of filming. I'm glad they didn't try to kill me when I said to "do it again" occassionaly. The Film Viewer was not used to make this, as I would have gone insane if I tried to use it. Offline was not used either, it's fubared on my end. We did the best we could do, in the few days we had to get it done by last friday, April 18, 66th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. A moment of silence would have been nice for last FSO, but I never got around to letting them know.
<S> from 4440, A8Niskey, Betty, Blue, Condor00, dtis30, DUGY, Kermit, HB555, Hibbie2, Strip, RDRTrash, WannaB and xSHAUNx, we all say thanks for watching and remembering The Doolittle Raiders.
