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70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid

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This is awesome.

No way in hell an idea like this would fly these days. Definitely ORM "red". Probably mitigated with a solid top three brief.

This is awesome.

No way in hell an idea like this would fly these days. Definitely ORM "red". Probably mitigated with a solid top three brief.

Surely in AFI11-214 there's a provision for the MAJCOM commander to waive crew rest requirements...

Hell yeah! One great week for bomber history.

I know the 34th BS, currently at Ellsworth, was part of the raid. Any other current squadrons involved?

37th BS (Ellsworth, B-1), 95th BS (Now RS, Offut, RC-135), the rest are retired now I believe.

Surely in AFI11-214 there's a provision for the MAJCOM commander to waive crew rest requirements...

CFACC can do it (can also waive crew duty day req's)

we figured that one out last year

Probably mitigated with a solid top three brief.

:thumbsup:

70 years ago today 16 B-25B Mitchell's took off from the Hornet to bring it hard to Japan.

America!

To The Raiders!

:salut::beer::flag_waving:

Here are some pictures of the 70th reunion at Wright-Patt this week.

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Their formal dinner last night was pretty cool. It had a hollywood opening video by Gary Sinise and John Voight and others introducing each Raider. I got to walk Col Saylor to his seat. Next one will be in Ft Walton Beach. Kermit Weeks offered his museum for the next- he was quite down to earth to speak with. Relatives of Chinese that aided in escapes were there, along w/ Mr. Hennesey from France, as it is a bottle from Jimmy Doolittle's birth year in the case of goblets for the final toast when only 2 are still with us.

I was at Wright-Patt earlier this week and managed to catch the formation of old bombers forming up and doing their flyby. There's nothing like seeing 20 B-25s thundering overhead to make you stand a little taller in your flight suit.

They need to ask those guys to do a Heritage type flight at Airshows this year. Now that would be cool... :salut:

At Ellsworth, we had a B-25 land friday afternoon. No shit, there we were drinking in the bar while one of our bros were enlightening us with a Doolittle Raid history brief and a B-25 did 4 "high speed" passes. They parked it next to one of our B-1s and we took a 34th BS group photo standing between the two of them. Pretty cool to be part of a sqdn that has such deep rooted history. B-25 dudes (and dudette) were cool as hell and they loved talking about their baby.

:jd: Merica!!

At Ellsworth, we had a B-25 land friday afternoon. No shit, there we were drinking in the bar while one of our bros were enlightening us with a Doolittle Raid history brief and a B-25 did 4 "high speed" passes. They parked it next to one of our B-1s and we took a 34th BS group photo standing between the two of them. Pretty cool to be part of a sqdn that has such deep rooted history. B-25 dudes (and dudette) were cool as hell and they loved talking about their baby.

:jd: Merica!!

Think you could get that pic up here?

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