RIP Lt Col Dick Cole - last of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders

[The Duke]

true American hero from a generation of heroes.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/09/us/last-doolittle-raider-dick-cole-dies/index.html

 

[wyomingosualum]

Anybody been to see the USS Hornet? It’s the carrier that launched Doolittle’s planes and it’s a museum now. It’s in Alameda, California.

I could be interested in visiting, depending upon input from those who have been there.

 

[The Duke]

Anybody been to see the USS Hornet? It’s the carrier that launched Doolittle’s planes and it’s a museum now. It’s in Alameda, California.

I could be interested in visiting, depending upon input from those who have been there.

The Hornet that carried the Doolittle raid B-25s (CV-8) was sunk about six months later in the battle of Santa Cruz in the Guadalcanal campaign. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-8)


The Hornet in Alameda is CV-12, an Essex class carrier originally named Kearsarge but renamed Hornet after the sinking of CV-8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)

 

[wyomingosualum]

The Hornet that carried the Doolittle raid B-25s (CV-8) was sunk about six months later in the battle of Santa Cruz in the Guadalcanal campaign. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-8)


The Hornet in Alameda is CV-12, an Essex class carrier originally named Kearsarge but renamed Hornet after the sinking of CV-8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)

Oh hell. Well...thanks for the update!