This is my great-great uncle. I never got to meet him, since he died three years before I was born. But I hear stories about him sometime from my grandmother, and what an amazing man he was. They say I look a lot like him in his younger days. God bless.
Met mjr Tom Griffin plane no9 (navigator) of the Doolittle raid at my local Hospital , A true war hero and Stalug luft 3 veteran too...(thats the great escape pow camp ) my god what a life these guys must have lived ...
what I found interesting about this Raid was how even the mistakes made played in our favor.....our planes had to leave early...which made them fly over Tokyo just after the first big air raid PRACTICE was finishing up for the entire city...the jap AA crews thought the planes were part of the practice so they didnt shoot..and the japs in the air thought the same..plus..our planes lost formation and came over the target from all directions..so the japs never did figure out they were carrier based
@kelvis68 gosh....bombs blew up and NO physical damage done??..LMAO....get a life JR.....yes...they were small bomb loads(nothing like what the B-29 did later) for sure....but they got the japs to move divisions and aircraft back to japan and away from the front and gave us all a morale boost. and.. made the japs lose face..as for the chinese...you think japs needed a reason to slaughter chinese...you need to read THE RAPE OF NANKING.
Most don't realize he was the 1st to fly a plane totally on instruments(which HE developed and are used to this day) also he was instrumental in fuel(Shell) and metulurgy(light metals for aviation)development and had quite an education besides being a great race pilot(Curtiss GB and more)Was General in N. Africa and 8th Air Force and in the '50's helped in many ways aviation and Space/missile development Not only gutsy, but a genius!
It's so great to read all of these comments, and to find others that are related to this great man. He is also a form of great, great uncle of mine (not sure exactly of the relation... it's not extremely direct, but we share blood and the same last name!) I am proud to be related to this man, and to have met him when I was a little girl, shortly before he died. What an honor, and what a man! Doolittle did a lot!
This was genuinely one of the most daring, courageous feats-of-arms in WW2. As a well-read WW2 military-history fanatic .. I cannot conceive of any other nation, other than the USA, who could have possibly pulled-off this mission. The famous USA approach of "adapt / improvise / can-do" was never better demonstrated, I think, than in this Raid .. from conception, to execution, & on to rescue of the downed crews in China. What guts, what skill, what courage they showed. Lest We Forget !! JAD RIP
God rest your precious soul, General, and may you rest in eternal peace. I hope I can meet you in heaven to thank you for the unbelievable LIFT you gave all Americans when you and the raiders struck Tokyo. I wasn't born yet, but I know all about you, and I salute you and all the raiders!!!
General Doolittle was an amazing man! He not only tried to make a plan to retaliate he SUCEEDED! Just as the current war lives are lost - God Bless Them! It is those brave soldiers we owe our Freedom to! I was very fortunate to spend a weekend with him and his wife in CA when I was in 4th grade. My grandmother grew up next door to him in STL - funny she had to drive him everywhere because he was terrified to drive a car, but he sure was a heck of a pilot!
@skudaarkaat1 Hi there redneck. Stop insulting me or I will send barking mod dogs after your whitey ass, bitch. Guess your hands will be in blood for all the eternity. I pity you and your deeds, barbarian. Those bastards deserve to be punished, like you. Goodbye sir, and have a nice day - hope you will get what you deserve =)
Though i never did meet him, my great uncle James Harold Doolittle is a inspiration to me. I here story's about him frequently and read articles and watch videos about him and his adventurous life. My aunt used to wright letters to great uncle jimmy, and he would respond to each and every one. James would be 114 years old now, but his legend will live strong forever.
@VideoEclipse15 You must be so very honored! My dad flew 24's in North Africa and brought back his plane's nose gun, which I still have and will pass on to my son, who is now in Iraq, and it fires as accurately now as it did almost 70 years ago. God bless our military!!!
@skudaarkaat1 I sure am. That's magnificent that you have such a piece of history that you can pass on to your children. Tell your son that I thank him for serving us and god bless him as well as all of the brave men and women serving our nation.
@VideoEclipse15 I e-mailed him your regards, and he and his squad were floored! He told me before he left that since it was a family tradition (we go back in the US Army to my Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Elias, who fought with Rogers' Rangers in 1758) he felt honor-bound to serve. What's really cool is that when he made Sergeant, I gave him a stripe that his grandfather (My Dad) wore in 1943, and one that I wore in 1970 and he was allowed to put both on the same fatigue shirt in Iraq!
I dont want to say anything about this video, because I like it, however, that first part where the crew is talking on the interphone, in actuality, that was from the Memphis Belle, on a raid on the Germans, the actual last raid in that part of the world, before its most famous drop, You can look up "The Memphis Belle, The Story of a Flying Fortress @ 25:22. That particular movie is great, it runs about 40 minutes. Love You Maj. Doolittle, May You Rest in Peace! Your my HERO!
Doolittle is my grandpa's great uncle on his mom's side. So Doolittle is my great great great uncle. I never met him obviously, but one year my family and I took a trip to D.C and we found his helmet and goggles in a case in one of the Smithsonian museums. It was a cool experience.
I'm writing this in 2010. As I was watching these heroic men, I was notified a family friend died, who was a nurse during WWII. Her husband was a WWII US fighter pilot. It's the passing of a generation, a great generation that saved the USA from being conquered. I spent my younger hippie years ignoring them, which was rude. Later, I told them I respected them, and admired what they did. RIP I'm so glad a lot of this is preserved on films.
@geektoro and also the wonderful equipment (B-25) AND the factories who in the end just outproduced our enemy's. We were all in it together and it showed. Unlike today.
McCann, Ask the people of Nanking or the philipines how they felt about the attack. You brainwashed peaceniks are a naive bunch. I bet there were anti-war types like you in russia and and china before the germans and japanese raped and murdered so many of them. Their arguments probably got them killed by their own people, or they learned quickly that monsters sometimes need to be slain. Wake up douchebag!
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Doolittle and Lamay weren't good people. they murdered so many people.
Imagine if he was German or Japanese. It would go without saying that he is a murderer. The people in Japan were people like anyone else. There was nothing heroic about this - they may have been spectacular pilots, but they committed atrocities.
The September 11th 2001 attacks were despicable, without a doubt. Why was this any better?
According to your logic and the fact that there is usually an aggressor and a defender....those that stood to protect resources vital to life of their people..such as water...and killed attackers in the process...were by your interpretation..murderers..
...is simplistic and dogmatic...and certainly short on logical understanding of regional and geopolitical events...where most often..means justify the end... and the greater good....your view is most entirely possible to disprove.
@zeroceiling ...and the attackers who survived the ordeal will of course look on the defenders as murderers. It's a vicious circle. I'm not talking about 'my' view, I'm talking about the view of the combatants.
@TraustiGeir ..so you then support the old view that "history is written by the victors"...as opposed to the absolute "objective" un-adulterated truth....that exists outside of the subjectivity of each participant in a particular conflict.....colored by propaganda....state information...etc.
a verifiable participation in a defense of your country...in guidance by social contracts such as the Geneva convention is not...correctly...labeled murder.
@zeroceiling ...further..."murder" by most western legal definitions...is identified by pre-meditation against a specific individual..personal gain by killing of this individual...and...personally pre-planned opportunity.
.killing of another outside of this falls into categories of : justifiable homicide....manslaughter...justifiable manslaughter...aggravated manslaughter..
how can a fearful soldier develop these precepts against specific individuals..when under orders developed by others?
@zeroceiling Absolutely not! I don't support biased tales of victories. It goes both ways, the defenders would see the attackers as murderers as well. I also never presented any legal matters to support what I had to say. All I wanted to present was my idea of how war affects both sides. In spite of the claims I made in my first post, I realize that my 'fact' isn't infallible.
@TraustiGeir not murdered. alot was self preservation/ self defense. and if u believe this than my dad who was in Vietnam and never talks about it was a murderer and that upsets me .
@WENEEDBACKUPNOW I'm sorry for the comment which started all this, I have removed it. I posted it without thinking properly about the consequences or just thinking, period. I hope this sets things right.
Because this was response to a surprise bombardment. 9/11 was just another surprise bombardment, which we responded to. We don't show up at someone's back door and blast them in the face with a shotgun - we at least ring the doorbell and yell "POLICE, OPEN UP!"
You're missing the big picture - they attacked us and thought they were taking us out of the war. They would have been right if our carriers were there. It was only by luck that we survived Pearl Harbor and won the war.
@GrahamSMcCann Allied Bombers made many raids over Japan that resulted in the deaths of many civilians.
There were factories in the Urban areas of Tokyo that were making war materials...leaflets were dropped warning people of the attacks. Also we didn't have precision bombing like we do now.
Doolittle wasn't a very nice guy. He murdered so many people.
Imagine if he was German or Japanese. It would go without saying that he is a murderer. The people in Japan were people like anyone else. There was nothing heroic about this - they may have been spectacular pilots, but they committed atrocities.
The September 11th 2001 attacks were despicable, without a doubt. Why was this any better?
Back in 1991 I worked at a tire store in California. An older gentleman came in to buy some new tires. He was wearing a suit and had a B24 pin on his lapel. I was floored when he handed me his license and I realized it was Jimmy Doolittle! I talked to him over coffee while he was there for about an hour listening to him recount various WWII stories. What an amazing guy. I was and still am honored to have met him.
@COPPOLINOP u were so lucky. i love to go to the veterans hospital and talk for hours with ww2 vets. i saluted a group of them and an old man from ww2 who was on oxygen and in a wheelchair stood up and i know it took him everything to do it and he saluted me and i said thank you for fighting for our country and he started to cry and so did i. i was 20 years old and nobody understands how bad veterans are treated.
@COPPOLINOP Man that must have been to cool, to meet a living legend face to face. What I would give to have a time machine and go back and be on that raid. I think it is THE most incredible mission ( given the aircraft, technology, and logistics of the time ), that the USA has ever pulled off.
So Jimmy, why didnt you all bomb the fuck out the Emperors palace? You might have got the Bastard! But then you did tell um not to! Explain that, but dont give the pow's the excuse!
What a thrill & honour to meet four of the raiders last week & Mr Gline who wrote the book "I could never be so lucky again" Will treasure the book which they all signed, forever.
The Doolittle Raiders will have their 68th reunion at The U.S. air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio April 16-18 2010. Of the 9 living members of the raid, 5 will be on hand to meet and greet. There will be several B-25 Mitchell's on hand. I plan to go and meet these brave men who gave so much so long ago.
This is my great-great uncle. I never got to meet him, since he died three years before I was born. But I hear stories about him sometime from my grandmother, and what an amazing man he was. They say I look a lot like him in his younger days. God bless.
CodyAndHisPen 5 days ago
Doolittle blew up the Graf Spee!!!
Lockbar 1 month ago
Met mjr Tom Griffin plane no9 (navigator) of the Doolittle raid at my local Hospital , A true war hero and Stalug luft 3 veteran too...(thats the great escape pow camp ) my god what a life these guys must have lived ...
aussieskiff 1 month ago
No mention how Chinese folks saved their life and paid the big price
highfight001 2 months ago
Dude this guy is my history teachers grandfather!
TheNoobTubez 2 months ago
what I found interesting about this Raid was how even the mistakes made played in our favor.....our planes had to leave early...which made them fly over Tokyo just after the first big air raid PRACTICE was finishing up for the entire city...the jap AA crews thought the planes were part of the practice so they didnt shoot..and the japs in the air thought the same..plus..our planes lost formation and came over the target from all directions..so the japs never did figure out they were carrier based
SONOFHERO52 3 months ago
no physical damage was caused by this raid and quarter of a million chinese people slaughtered because of it.
kelvis68 4 months ago
@kelvis68 gosh....bombs blew up and NO physical damage done??..LMAO....get a life JR.....yes...they were small bomb loads(nothing like what the B-29 did later) for sure....but they got the japs to move divisions and aircraft back to japan and away from the front and gave us all a morale boost. and.. made the japs lose face..as for the chinese...you think japs needed a reason to slaughter chinese...you need to read THE RAPE OF NANKING.
SONOFHERO52 3 months ago 2
Jimmy Doolittle was Bold, Innovative and a true American legend. Men like him and Claire Chennault are few and far between.
darknight0dc 4 months ago
To bad they dishonored Jimmy Doolitle by having a Liberal Scum like Alec Baldwin play him in the movie!
JENDALL714 5 months ago 3
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mylove650 5 months ago
Most don't realize he was the 1st to fly a plane totally on instruments(which HE developed and are used to this day) also he was instrumental in fuel(Shell) and metulurgy(light metals for aviation)development and had quite an education besides being a great race pilot(Curtiss GB and more)Was General in N. Africa and 8th Air Force and in the '50's helped in many ways aviation and Space/missile development Not only gutsy, but a genius!
chasyes1 5 months ago
It's so great to read all of these comments, and to find others that are related to this great man. He is also a form of great, great uncle of mine (not sure exactly of the relation... it's not extremely direct, but we share blood and the same last name!) I am proud to be related to this man, and to have met him when I was a little girl, shortly before he died. What an honor, and what a man! Doolittle did a lot!
shellydooalot 5 months ago
@shellydooalot Im related to him too
mugmanmig 3 months ago
There are things that make America great.
hsuson 6 months ago
This was genuinely one of the most daring, courageous feats-of-arms in WW2. As a well-read WW2 military-history fanatic .. I cannot conceive of any other nation, other than the USA, who could have possibly pulled-off this mission. The famous USA approach of "adapt / improvise / can-do" was never better demonstrated, I think, than in this Raid .. from conception, to execution, & on to rescue of the downed crews in China. What guts, what skill, what courage they showed. Lest We Forget !! JAD RIP
colindominy 6 months ago
God rest your precious soul, General, and may you rest in eternal peace. I hope I can meet you in heaven to thank you for the unbelievable LIFT you gave all Americans when you and the raiders struck Tokyo. I wasn't born yet, but I know all about you, and I salute you and all the raiders!!!
skudaarkaat1 7 months ago
Really sucks to see the mortality of a great honorable hero like Col. Doolittle.
SlingBlade79 9 months ago
General Doolittle was an amazing man! He not only tried to make a plan to retaliate he SUCEEDED! Just as the current war lives are lost - God Bless Them! It is those brave soldiers we owe our Freedom to! I was very fortunate to spend a weekend with him and his wife in CA when I was in 4th grade. My grandmother grew up next door to him in STL - funny she had to drive him everywhere because he was terrified to drive a car, but he sure was a heck of a pilot!
Debbiew920 11 months ago 3
White bastard. Killed people for nothing.
prznt 11 months ago
@prznt What are you, asshole. A fucking jap?
skudaarkaat1 11 months ago
@skudaarkaat1 Hi there redneck. Stop insulting me or I will send barking mod dogs after your whitey ass, bitch. Guess your hands will be in blood for all the eternity. I pity you and your deeds, barbarian. Those bastards deserve to be punished, like you. Goodbye sir, and have a nice day - hope you will get what you deserve =)
prznt 11 months ago
Jimmy Doolittle is real hero and I must say rest in peace.
Mikele22000 11 months ago 15
@Mikele22000 Im related to him but I never got to see him
mugmanmig 3 months ago
Though i never did meet him, my great uncle James Harold Doolittle is a inspiration to me. I here story's about him frequently and read articles and watch videos about him and his adventurous life. My aunt used to wright letters to great uncle jimmy, and he would respond to each and every one. James would be 114 years old now, but his legend will live strong forever.
Rest In Peace
VideoEclipse15 1 year ago
@VideoEclipse15 You must be so very honored! My dad flew 24's in North Africa and brought back his plane's nose gun, which I still have and will pass on to my son, who is now in Iraq, and it fires as accurately now as it did almost 70 years ago. God bless our military!!!
skudaarkaat1 11 months ago 2
@skudaarkaat1 I sure am. That's magnificent that you have such a piece of history that you can pass on to your children. Tell your son that I thank him for serving us and god bless him as well as all of the brave men and women serving our nation.
VideoEclipse15 6 months ago
@VideoEclipse15 I e-mailed him your regards, and he and his squad were floored! He told me before he left that since it was a family tradition (we go back in the US Army to my Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Elias, who fought with Rogers' Rangers in 1758) he felt honor-bound to serve. What's really cool is that when he made Sergeant, I gave him a stripe that his grandfather (My Dad) wore in 1943, and one that I wore in 1970 and he was allowed to put both on the same fatigue shirt in Iraq!
skudaarkaat1 6 months ago
I dont want to say anything about this video, because I like it, however, that first part where the crew is talking on the interphone, in actuality, that was from the Memphis Belle, on a raid on the Germans, the actual last raid in that part of the world, before its most famous drop, You can look up "The Memphis Belle, The Story of a Flying Fortress @ 25:22. That particular movie is great, it runs about 40 minutes. Love You Maj. Doolittle, May You Rest in Peace! Your my HERO!
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AllieCat356 1 year ago
Doolittle is my grandpa's great uncle on his mom's side. So Doolittle is my great great great uncle. I never met him obviously, but one year my family and I took a trip to D.C and we found his helmet and goggles in a case in one of the Smithsonian museums. It was a cool experience.
carson0524 1 year ago
Wow! Lucky you, Coppolino. And good for you for taking advantage of having met the great man. What a thrill. Thanks for sharing it.
harryslide 1 year ago
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GelandnaleG 1 year ago
this man is a true american hero
moseguera69 1 year ago
I'm writing this in 2010. As I was watching these heroic men, I was notified a family friend died, who was a nurse during WWII. Her husband was a WWII US fighter pilot. It's the passing of a generation, a great generation that saved the USA from being conquered. I spent my younger hippie years ignoring them, which was rude. Later, I told them I respected them, and admired what they did. RIP I'm so glad a lot of this is preserved on films.
illustrate100 1 year ago
I see why they cast Alec Baldwin to portray him because the resemblance is breathtakingly obvious.
Turnback 1 year ago
We are all in dept to WW2 soldiers. God speed boys.
geektoro 1 year ago
@geektoro and also the wonderful equipment (B-25) AND the factories who in the end just outproduced our enemy's. We were all in it together and it showed. Unlike today.
MultiMunch12 1 year ago
McCann, Ask the people of Nanking or the philipines how they felt about the attack. You brainwashed peaceniks are a naive bunch. I bet there were anti-war types like you in russia and and china before the germans and japanese raped and murdered so many of them. Their arguments probably got them killed by their own people, or they learned quickly that monsters sometimes need to be slain. Wake up douchebag!
neiltfreeman 1 year ago
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GrahamSMcCann I hope you rot in hell with all the other idiots..
Lthull3rdla 1 year ago
hey grahamsmccann...you are a dido
chrisjusn 1 year ago 3
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Doolittle and Lamay weren't good people. they murdered so many people.
Imagine if he was German or Japanese. It would go without saying that he is a murderer. The people in Japan were people like anyone else. There was nothing heroic about this - they may have been spectacular pilots, but they committed atrocities.
The September 11th 2001 attacks were despicable, without a doubt. Why was this any better?
GrahamSMcCann 1 year ago
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@GrahamSMcCann Wish I could make you a part of my toilet so I can take a dump on your head every day you shit head.
yizuman 1 year ago
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TraustiGeir 1 year ago
@TraustiGeir
According to your logic and the fact that there is usually an aggressor and a defender....those that stood to protect resources vital to life of their people..such as water...and killed attackers in the process...were by your interpretation..murderers..
...is simplistic and dogmatic...and certainly short on logical understanding of regional and geopolitical events...where most often..means justify the end... and the greater good....your view is most entirely possible to disprove.
zeroceiling 1 year ago
@zeroceiling ...and the attackers who survived the ordeal will of course look on the defenders as murderers. It's a vicious circle. I'm not talking about 'my' view, I'm talking about the view of the combatants.
TraustiGeir 1 year ago
@TraustiGeir ..so you then support the old view that "history is written by the victors"...as opposed to the absolute "objective" un-adulterated truth....that exists outside of the subjectivity of each participant in a particular conflict.....colored by propaganda....state information...etc.
a verifiable participation in a defense of your country...in guidance by social contracts such as the Geneva convention is not...correctly...labeled murder.
zeroceiling 1 year ago
@zeroceiling ...further..."murder" by most western legal definitions...is identified by pre-meditation against a specific individual..personal gain by killing of this individual...and...personally pre-planned opportunity.
.killing of another outside of this falls into categories of : justifiable homicide....manslaughter...justifiable manslaughter...aggravated manslaughter..
how can a fearful soldier develop these precepts against specific individuals..when under orders developed by others?
zeroceiling 1 year ago
@zeroceiling Absolutely not! I don't support biased tales of victories. It goes both ways, the defenders would see the attackers as murderers as well. I also never presented any legal matters to support what I had to say. All I wanted to present was my idea of how war affects both sides. In spite of the claims I made in my first post, I realize that my 'fact' isn't infallible.
TraustiGeir 1 year ago
@TraustiGeir not murdered. alot was self preservation/ self defense. and if u believe this than my dad who was in Vietnam and never talks about it was a murderer and that upsets me .
WENEEDBACKUPNOW 1 year ago
@WENEEDBACKUPNOW I'm sorry for the comment which started all this, I have removed it. I posted it without thinking properly about the consequences or just thinking, period. I hope this sets things right.
TraustiGeir 1 year ago
@GrahamSMcCann
Because this was response to a surprise bombardment. 9/11 was just another surprise bombardment, which we responded to. We don't show up at someone's back door and blast them in the face with a shotgun - we at least ring the doorbell and yell "POLICE, OPEN UP!"
You're missing the big picture - they attacked us and thought they were taking us out of the war. They would have been right if our carriers were there. It was only by luck that we survived Pearl Harbor and won the war.
marcantonio152 10 months ago
@GrahamSMcCann Allied Bombers made many raids over Japan that resulted in the deaths of many civilians.
There were factories in the Urban areas of Tokyo that were making war materials...leaflets were dropped warning people of the attacks. Also we didn't have precision bombing like we do now.
whiskeyify 7 months ago
Doolittle wasn't a very nice guy. He murdered so many people.
Imagine if he was German or Japanese. It would go without saying that he is a murderer. The people in Japan were people like anyone else. There was nothing heroic about this - they may have been spectacular pilots, but they committed atrocities.
The September 11th 2001 attacks were despicable, without a doubt. Why was this any better?
GrahamSMcCann 1 year ago
@GrahamSMcCann hey shithead why don't you go scratch your ass with a broken bottle
mitchglucket 1 year ago
@mitchglucket That's basically what I was saying, I agree with you
GrahamSMcCann 1 year ago
Back in 1991 I worked at a tire store in California. An older gentleman came in to buy some new tires. He was wearing a suit and had a B24 pin on his lapel. I was floored when he handed me his license and I realized it was Jimmy Doolittle! I talked to him over coffee while he was there for about an hour listening to him recount various WWII stories. What an amazing guy. I was and still am honored to have met him.
COPPOLINOP 1 year ago 57
@COPPOLINOP I would be too, thats awesome
dondawg00 1 year ago
@dondawg00, And I'll second that....that would have been a great honour indeed!!!
anzac2404 1 year ago
@COPPOLINOP
Thanks for sharing that.
24preacherboy 1 year ago
@COPPOLINOP u were so lucky. i love to go to the veterans hospital and talk for hours with ww2 vets. i saluted a group of them and an old man from ww2 who was on oxygen and in a wheelchair stood up and i know it took him everything to do it and he saluted me and i said thank you for fighting for our country and he started to cry and so did i. i was 20 years old and nobody understands how bad veterans are treated.
WENEEDBACKUPNOW 1 year ago
@COPPOLINOP
i wish i was there. WOW!
yourgodwillbowtous 1 year ago
@yourgodwillbowtous I am very glad I was not!
alanheath3 1 year ago
@COPPOLINOP What a wonderful story - thanks for sharing!
alanheath3 1 year ago
@COPPOLINOP Wheely?
tryithere 1 year ago
@COPPOLINOP U LUCKY DUCK! IM HAPPY 4 U, GOOD 4 U. RIP JIMMY, SALUTE!
AllieCat356 1 year ago
@COPPOLINOP WOW, weren't you lucky! God bless him and all the raiders, and may they forever rest in peace!
skudaarkaat1 11 months ago 2
@COPPOLINOP you lucky S.O.B.
Jenn1842 10 months ago
@COPPOLINOP
You had a once in a lifetime chat with a true leader of heros that did their jobs to the fullest. HE deserved that Medal of Honor!!!
Peace and God Bless in these times.
RFT
redfoxtrapper 10 months ago
@COPPOLINOP Man that must have been to cool, to meet a living legend face to face. What I would give to have a time machine and go back and be on that raid. I think it is THE most incredible mission ( given the aircraft, technology, and logistics of the time ), that the USA has ever pulled off.
cudaj2 4 months ago
@COPPOLINOP wauhoo ta eu de la chance d'avoir parler a ce heros qui a fait en sorte de venger PEARL HARBOR!!
vidofnir5 1 week ago
These guys were amazing. God bless our fighting forces.
matthewmtt 1 year ago
So Jimmy, why didnt you all bomb the fuck out the Emperors palace? You might have got the Bastard! But then you did tell um not to! Explain that, but dont give the pow's the excuse!
babytines17 1 year ago
Some little cunt at ar15.com made me watch this...
drbackjack 1 year ago
All of General Doolittle's medals are on public display in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington DC.
600joe 1 year ago
@SuperFirefox777
Feeling proud?
askjiir 1 year ago
What a thrill & honour to meet four of the raiders last week & Mr Gline who wrote the book "I could never be so lucky again" Will treasure the book which they all signed, forever.
maxwellburb 1 year ago
@maxwellburb Maybe we were standing next to each other in line? I drove over a hundred miles to get a book inscribed by three of the raiders.
kentamitchell 1 year ago
The Doolittle Raiders will have their 68th reunion at The U.S. air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio April 16-18 2010. Of the 9 living members of the raid, 5 will be on hand to meet and greet. There will be several B-25 Mitchell's on hand. I plan to go and meet these brave men who gave so much so long ago.
hotdog1960 1 year ago
Amazing....
SCE2AUX 1 year ago
Too bad Roosevelt didn't listen to Billy Mitchell, or did he?
lizardfirefighter110 1 year ago
The story was real.... thanks for this video!
MogaViorel 1 year ago