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8 Doolittle Raider crew left alive

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Click the image above to view Terri’s video of her flight with B-25J ‘Pacific Princess’ of Chino, CA, and 16 other B-25Js in tribute to the last surviving Doolittle Raiders, on April 15-18, at the Air Force Museum, Wright Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio. The Doolittle Raiders were a group of B-25 pilots and crew who flew B-25Js from the USS Carrier ‘Hornet’ in April, 1942 to attack Tokyo, Japan, along with several other industrial targets on the Japanese mainland, and deliver a tremendous morale booster to Americans during a dark time of WWII. Today there are only 8 Doolittle Raider crewmembers left alive from that historic raid, and three braved bitter cold weather in Ohio to thank the crews of these B-25s for their rememberance of this historic flight.

Terri Polley, of VictoryGirl participated as video crew member for the trip from Chino, to Ohio and back, and even earned her ‘Combat Camera’ patch from the Air Force photographers there! If you have issues getting to the video, do a search on YouTube for ‘Victorygirl, B-25J Pacific Princess’
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Re: 8 Doolittle Raider crew left alive

In 1995, one of the partners at our airfield was part of the 50th anniversary commemoration of World War II, three B-25s, one F6F Hellcat, an F4F Wildcat, & one Marine F4U Corsair were lifted onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) while it was docked at San Francisco Bay. They took them across the Pacific & docked at Ford Island, Pear Harbor. The carrier steamed out of Pearl Harbor and into the ocean to launch the aircraft. In the video, his is the 2nd B-25 to launch, the OD & tan one.


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Jonna Doolittle Hoppes speaks about her Grandfather, General Jimmy Doolittle from her new book "Calculated Risk" and the importance of recording history for future generations at the Historic Flight Foundation's "B-25 Grumpy Welcome Reception". This clip includes original film footage of the crews on the historic "Doolittle Raid" of WWII, which proved to the US and the Japanese Empire that America could and would strike back. The special event was attended by over 200 people to welcome the worlds oldest B-25 bomber back to the United States and into the Historic Flight Foundation collection

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