70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid

[Guest Grind]

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

America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f25-FnGkiwo&feature=related

[billy pilgrim]

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.

[BQZip01]

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...

[Danger41]

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?

[Guest Grind]

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

[daynightindicator]

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

[Champ Kind]

I'm all for waivers when it is for something worth waiving.

[F16Deuce]

Probably mitigated with a solid top three brief.

[Stitch]

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

America!

To The Raiders!

[HERK_Nav]

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

[moosepileit]

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.

[aerofunk]

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.

[Surf70]

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

[PlanePhlyer]

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.

Merica!!

[Guest Grind]

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.

Merica!!

Think you could get that pic up here?