Comments on: Flightdeck Friday: Special Edition – Doolittle Raid 66th Anniversary

By: David Casler

David Casler — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:12:09 +0000

In the famous photo of Doolittle taking off the flight deck, there are a few sailors in the crows nest watching. The one on the far left, leaning over therail, the short one, is my Grandfather (Bob Logsdon). He pa**ed away Nov 18th 2009.

In Memory, Semper Fi,

Your Grandson
David G. Casler (USMC)

By: Steeljawscribe

Steeljawscribe — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:05:42 +0000

Buck: read and re-read “Thirty Seconds” (and “Bridges”) so much as a youngster that the pages literally fell out of the bindings on both paperbacks…

xformed: Concur – a most excellent autobiography…
- SJS

By: Buck

Buck — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:15:43 +0000

I read “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” when I was eight years old, or just a little over ten years after the event. That book had a profound effect on my young life and just might be one of the reasons I chose the military as a career. Aside from the fact the Ol’ Man was career USAF, among other “stuff.”

(As did the movie “The Bridges of Toko-Ri.” Can’t fail to mention that, as well. Present company, and all that.)

By: sid

sid — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:39:35 +0000

Was flying into VPS the other day-pretty day with 100nm plus viz and a great view of all the coastal fields including HRT- and pondered how out of the box an accomplishment this was.

How come the next generation of AFSOC aircraft are not getting designed to be carrier launchable? Given the way potential adversaries are beefing up ther A2/AD capabilities, it may be a capability that will come in handy one day.

Now that an entire Brownshoe generation has come to consider the Rhino “big”, and the Forrestal a “small deck”, I am certain it has been forgotten the FID decks and later were designed with 100k weight aircraft in mind…

By: xformed

xformed — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:36:52 +0000

An excellent read, not only for the Raid details, but the life of an aviator from WWI on, get your hands on "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again" and autobio by Gen Dolittle. Great read. Great man.