Editor’s picks from the web 08/24/2016
As editor often get outstanding contributions from readers. They represent hard work of others who share my passion to remember!, I can’t put on KilroyWasHere.org but they deserve wider distribution. Shared by Tony Welch
“Everybody knows about the Doolittle raid, our first retaliation against the Japanese homeland after Pearl Harbor. We had sixteen B-25 bombers loaded aboard and ready to go. Our skipper, Marc Mitscher, was just as superstitious as any sailor. It’s April Fool’s Day, the ordered departure date. So he announced that we’d just stay tied up alongside the pier until the next day. No sense toying with fate.”
This is part of an amazing first hand story. Part of the story is quoted in a WW11 combat book: “Neptune”s Inferno –The U.S. Navy At Guadalcanal”
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