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Flightdeck Friday: Special Edition - Doolittle Raid 66th Anniversary

April 18th, 2008 4 Comments

Sixty-Six 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. Planned by [...]

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