Dolittle Raid slide show

Great pics. A friend sent me these a few days ago. One correction. Crew 11. The PIC was C. Ross Greening (not Green). A fine arts graduate of Washington State College (now University). He was shot down over Italy, not North Africa. He was flying a B-26 Marauder at the time. Was flying out of North Africa. Over Mt. Vesuvius when flack got them in the starboard engine. Captured by the Italians. Escaped when the prison train he was in was hit by Allied bombers. Re-captured later on by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Germany. His book, "Not As Briefed", published by Washington State University Press, contains the full story, along with many pictures that he drew during the war. Greening died in the 1950s from medical complications from his time in the POW camp. He designed the bomb sight used for the Doolittle raid. The Norden wasn't really suitable for a low level attack and they didn't want to risk having the Japanese capture one. His wasn't much more than a tube on a mount that was good for a single speed at a single altitude. Cheaper, lighter and just as good for a special mission.

The Greatest Generation. That they are/were.
 
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