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Caption | One of the Doolittle Raid B-25 bomber crews aboard USS Hornet shortly before the mission, Apr 1942 ww2dbase | |||||||||||
Date | 5 Apr 1942 | |||||||||||
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31 Jul 2012 02:35:44 AM
This is Doolittle Crew #12 (12th to fly off Hornet). L to R they are: Lt William R Pound, Jr (Navigator), Lt William M Bower (Pilot), TSgt Waldo J Bither (Bombardier), Lt Thadd H Blanton (Co-Pilot), SSgt Omer A Duquette (Engineer/Gunner). All survived the mission after parachuting into China. SSgt Duquette was killed in action in Burma in 1942 but the other four survived the war.