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Flightdeck Friday - Early Edition: The Doolittle Raid

April 18th, 2007 2 Comments

Sixty-five years ago

Guts, determination, innovation - courage were defined
(and well before Joint was “cool”)

Conceived in the dark aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the raid had its genesis in the idea of CAPT Frank Lowe, USN who predicted that Army twin-engine bombers could be launched form a carrier under the right conditions. [...]

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