WW II Veteran speaking with the local news

This may be of interest given the recent posts about WWII aviation.
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Was hard to put the book down. Stayed up half the night to finish it. What a story -- hope the movie is as good as the book.

I read that book quite some time ago. Several years ago I think. I have it on my Kindle.

It is a good book.

Iremember reading a book about guys adrift at sea when I was in High School back in the 70's. It was just titled "The raft" I think.

Jimmy Doolittle writes about being adrift. I think he was in a raft for several weeks, maybe 3. His book is " I could never be so Lucky" I believe that is is.


Gene

are you sure it wasn't Eddie Rickenbacker that was in the raft? here's an excerpt about Doolittle. Bill

:Crew of 1st Aircraft - Plane # 40-2344 - Crew from 34th Squadron - (Bail Out)
Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle's bomber was the first over Japan and the first to drop its bomb load. The four incendiaries fell at 12:30 p.m. (Tokyo time) to incinerate a large factory. Doolittle then flew west to reach the coast of China after dark. By 9:30 fuel was low and unable to find an airfield in the heavy fog, Doolittle ordered his crew to bail out among the mountains of China. He then followed them into the night, his B-25 crashing on a nearby mountainside. The only injury sustained by any of the crew was a sprained ankle. Local Chinese escorted the Americans to Chuchow from where they eventually returned home safely.

Lt. Col. Doolittle's No.1 bomber crashed in Haotianguan, where Zhejiang Province meets Anhui Province. Five pilots parachuted and landed in the Tianmushan area in Lin'an County, Zhejiang Province. Lt. Col. Doolittle stayed overnight in a water-powered trip-hammer in a paddy field until he was found by several young students the next day, and escorted to the Western Zhejiang Administration. There, he was joined by his fellow crewmen who were escorted here by Zhu Xuesan, a primary school teacher who could speak some English, and certain villagers including Zhang Gengrong.

BOOK IS WE THOUGHT WE HEARD THE ANGELS SING....BE BLESSED, GRATEFUL, PREPARED, NIK
FLYIN SINCE 61, VIET VET 66-7