Monday, April 20, 2009

Doolittle's Raiders Come to South Carolina

The Columbia (SC) State newspaper has been running articles on the Reunion of the Doolittle Raiders that took place this last weekend in that city. This is from April 12th.

One older resident who goes by the e-mail name rcorbitt, made a comment of interest that occurred when he was young and saw history taking place, but didn't realize it.

As a child, he lived near the Columbia Army Air Base in West Columbia, and he and his buddies would ride their bikes to the woods across from the base and "watch the planes land and take off. I remember watching the B-25s setting at the end of the runway one at a time and would rev up the engines so loud it was deafening and then all of a sudden they would go down the runway for a short distance and then go almost straight up into the air. Little did we know they were practicing taking off from an aircraft carrier."

The Raiders did some of their early training for the attack in Columbia.

Now, That's Some History to See. --Cooter

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