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Title: Doolittle Raider who shunned title of 'hero' dies
Category: History
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2013-02-27 20:29:02

[Freakinoldguy]

RIP good Sir,

you may not have thought yourself a hero but by bringing light to a nation in darkness, you became one.

[martin14]

Fantastic job well done.

RIP

[Yogi]

Weather he liked it or not, he was a hero.

RIP

[commanderkai]

May he rest in peace.

[Nuggie77]

My only comment would be towards the guy that wrote the article. By the time of the Doolittle raid, the war had been raging in Europe for 3 years.

And yes this guy was hero. Those guys were a bit nutty to fly B-25's off a carrier that size.

[bootlegga]

Although I question the necessity of the Doolittle Raid, anyone who participated in that mission was brave as hell - most of them knew they wouldn't make it home and yet they volunteered anyways.

RIP

[BartSimpson]

Nuggie77 Nuggie77:

My only comment would be towards the guy that wrote the article. By the time of the Doolittle raid, the war had been raging in Europe for 3 years.

The perspective of most Americans at the time was that it was a European matter that we didn't want to be involved in. Again.

These days the perspective of most Americans is that the war started on 7 Dec. 1941 and, for the USA, this remains true.

Nuggie77 Nuggie77:

And yes this guy was hero. Those guys were a bit nutty to fly B-25's off a carrier that size.

They were well-trained and well-prepared and they pulled it off.

For 'nutty' you might want to look at this:

[raydan]

Someone tell me if I'm right even though the more I think of it, the more logical it seems... to facilitate landing and takeoff, it is best that the aircraft carrier be going full-speed into the wind.

[xerxes]

How can tell a real hero? They're the ones that shun the title at every opportunity.

RIP.

[BartSimpson]

raydan raydan:

Someone tell me if I'm right even though the more I think of it, the more logical it seems... to facilitate landing and takeoff, it is best that the aircraft carrier be going full-speed into the wind.

Yep.

[PluggyRug]

raydan raydan:

Someone tell me if I'm right even though the more I think of it, the more logical it seems... to facilitate landing and takeoff, it is best that the aircraft carrier be going full-speed into the wind.

Yup!

Sea state also plays a factor.

Those Doolittle guy's were something else. RIP.

[PluggyRug]

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If you want to calculate sea state......

[raydan]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

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If you want to calculate sea state......

Now I get it... thanks.