Rabu, 23 Agustus 2017

They Flew From Shangri-La

Time has taken its toll on the Doolittle Raiders, but 70 years later their heroic deeds live on. The five remaining survivors from Jimmy Doolittle’s legendary April 18, 1942, bombing raid on Japan are expected to reunite at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, this April. As their designated historian, …

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