
Caption | One of the Doolittle Raid B-25 bomber crews aboard USS Hornet shortly before the mission, Apr 1942 ww2dbase | |||||||||||
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Added Date | 27 Oct 2012 | |||||||||||
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31 Jul 2012 02:39:55 AM
This is Doolittle Crew #14 (14th to fly off Hornet). L to R they are: Lt James H Macia, Jr (Navigator/Bombardier), Maj John A Hilger (Pilot), SSgt Edwin V Bain (Gunner), Lt Jack A Sims (Co-Pilot), SSgt Jacob Eirman (Engineer). All survived the mission after parachuting into China. MSgt Bain was killed in action in Italy in 1943 but the other four survived the war.