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GOOD MORNING, IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO INTRODUCE THESE GENTLEMEN. AFTER WE WERE BROAD-SIDED BY THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, BEFORE YOU CAN LEAD WITH A PUNCH,...
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| 00:00:35 |
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JOB. VOLUNTEER AIR CRUISE IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TRAINING, UTILIZING B-25 BOMBERS, AND WHEN LIEUTENANT COLONEL DOOLITTLE ORDERED THE AIR CREWS TOCALLY, HE...
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| 00:03:11 |
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THE AIR FORCE STAFF BEFORE A SEVEN-YEAR TOUR BEFORE SERVING IN THE AIR FORCE AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. HIS LAST ASSIGNMENT WAS WITH THE ALASKA...
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| 00:04:11 |
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1942. 16, B-25'S SIT ON THE PITCHING DECK OF AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER AT SEA. THEIR MISSION, BOMB TOKYO JUST FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR....
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| 00:04:31 |
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| 00:04:43 |
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THAT'S IT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. [APPLAUSE] I CAN GIVE YOU A FEW STATISTICS ABOUT THE RAID. THERE WERE 00 MEN ON THE RAID IN THOSE 16, B-25'S, FIVE...
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| 00:11:28 |
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AIRCRAFT. THREE MEN DIED AS A RESULT OF THE RAID. TWO DIED SWIMMING TO SHORE, ONE DIED ON THE BAILOUT. EIGHT MEN WERE CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE. THREE...
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| 00:19:47 |
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AIRPLANES? NO, NO NAMES. OH, ALL RIGHT. THEY WERE THERE, NOT ME. WAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A MINUTE. WHAT NAMES TU PUT ON
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| 00:19:56 |
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THEM? >> I
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| 00:19:59 |
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HAD WHAT SOME PEOPLE
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| 00:20:02 |
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DID, GREENIE PAINTED PICTURE ON A COUPLE
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| 00:20:05 |
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OF THEM. AND SEVERAL CLOWNS HAD NAMES FOR THEM, BUT THERE WEREN'T ANY OFFICIAL. >> OK. THEY WERE NOT, NOT ME. TO THOSE WHO DID BAIL OUT, EVEN
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| 00:20:22 |
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THOUGH YOU WERE PREPARED AND WARNED TA MIGHT HAVING TO DO THIS, TWAFFS LIKE TO ACTUALLY MOVE AND JUMP OUT AT NIGHT IN THE BAD WEATHER, OVER UNKNOWN...
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| 00:20:36 |
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OUT, SOB WE HAVE SEPARATE STORIES HERE. >> IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE, SCARED AS [BEEP]. [APPLAUSE] >>
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| 00:20:55 |
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I GUESS I COULD AMPLIFY IT, BUT -- >>
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| 00:21:02 |
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YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE ATTEMPTED TO LAND IN THE WATER, AND THAT DIDN'T WORK OUT VERY WELL. TRIED THE BEACH, AND THAT DIDN'T WORK. BUT MOST PEOPLE --...
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| 00:21:19 |
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AND GOT AWAY WITH IT, ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. BUT MOST OF
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| 00:21:24 |
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THE PEOPLE IT LIKE I HAD, LET OUT THAT HATCH, IN THE BLACK. >> THAT'S ENOUGH. >> ED, HOW ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE? ED WAS AN GUNNER IN HIS AIRPLANE,...
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| 00:21:50 |
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THE TAIL OF THE AIRCRAFT AT THE
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| 00:21:53 |
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TIME OF THE BOMB RUN. I TOOK CARE OF THE FUEL TANKS, EMPTIED THE FUEL TANKS
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| 00:22:06 |
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AND STARTED TO RUN ACROSS THE SEA, HIT THE CHINA COAST, BAILED OUT, LANDED WITHOUT A LOT OF TROUBLE. >> YOU WEREN'T SCARED, HUH? YOU WEREN'T AFRAID?...
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| 00:22:47 |
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AIRCRAFT. >> WELL, IT HAS ME SPEECHLESS. I DON'T
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| 00:22:52 |
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KNOW WHAT IT IS. WHAT IS IT? WELL, I WENT UP -- I WAS UP FRONT, AND SO I
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| 00:23:01 |
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JUST GATHERED THE OTHER CREW MEMBERS UP IN THE LITTLE ALCOVE IN THE BACK OF THE AIRPLANE AND WE FLEW FOR HOURS UNTIL WE GOT -- WE KNEW
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| 00:23:11 |
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WE WERE OVER CHINA. WE KNEW WE WERE OVER SOMETHING, BECAUSE IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE OCEAN. AND IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND SO I JUST THINK I SAID...
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| 00:27:29 |
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BEFORE WE RAN OUT OF GAS. GOING ACROSS THE CHINA SEA, THE STORM BECAME MUCH WORSE AS WE
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| 00:27:38 |
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PROCEEDED TOWARD CHINA. WHEN WE NOT TO WHERE WE FIGURED, IT WAS NIGHT TIME AND BY COULDN'T SEE MUCH AND WE HAD WHAT MOST OF THE OTHER AIRPLANES DID,...
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| 00:28:47 |
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SHOOT WOULD
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| 00:28:49 |
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COLLAPSE SOMETIMES. I THOUGHT I MIGHT BE LOSING ALL MY AIR, AND I WAS FOR AWHILE. WHEN I WAS ON THE GROUND A BRANCH OF A TREE THE MY FACE AND THE IN...
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| 00:31:53 |
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SCARIEST TILE. STANDING IN THE ARREST THAT WAS ABOUT TO RUN OUT OF FUEL, AND LOOKING UP TO AT THAT BLACK HOLE THAT WAS TOW YOU OUT IN TO THE MID OF
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| 00:32:09 |
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THUNDERSTORM, IF A FOREIGN COUNTRY BUT IT WAS FOR IT WILL TERNTIVE. MY AT THE SENT IN TO KEEN WAS UNEVENTFUL, COMPET FOR THE RAIN AND STORM APPEAR SO...
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| 00:41:14 |
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JUMPED OUT, I HAD IT STRAPPED AROUND MY WAIST, AND THE MOMENTUM TOOK
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| 00:41:22 |
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IT DOWN, AND I
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| 00:41:24 |
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HELD ONTO IT WITH MY FOOT ALL THE WAY DOWN. I KNEW I
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| 00:41:28 |
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COULDN'T LOSE IT OR I WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT OR SOMETHING. ANY WAY, I KEPT IT, DIDN'T NEED IT IN CHINA AT ALL. CARRIED IT THROUGH THE REST OF THE WAR...
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| 00:42:35 |
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FOR NAVIGATION. IT KEPT PERFECT TIME. ALL THE AND A HALF GATORS CHECKED OUR NAVIGATIONAL WATCHES AGAINST THE PARTICULAR
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| 00:42:47 |
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ON THE CARRIER, AND MY WATCH WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT DIDN'T LOSE OR GAIN A FRACTION OF A SECOND IN THOSE 18 DAYS. SO THE LAST THING I DID, I REACHED...
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| 00:43:30 |
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BAIL-OUT WAS -- NOTHING HAPPENED. THE BELT AND THE
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| 00:43:37 |
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GUN REMAINED
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| 00:43:39 |
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INTACT, AND I CARRIED IT THE REST OF THE
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| 00:43:44 |
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WAR. I DID BECOME LEGAL. I TURNED IT IN TO UNCLE SAM. >> MORE QUESTIONS? SOMEONE HAD A QUESTION IN THE REAR? >> YES, I HAD ONE. FIRST, IT IS AN HONOR...
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| 00:44:13 |
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CARRIER, THAT PITCHING AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE MORNING, WHAT DID YOU THINK WERE
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| 00:44:17 |
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YOUR ODDS OF RETURNING SAFELY? NUMBER TWO, WHAT WERE SOME OF YOUR EMOTIONS AS YOU WATCHED THAT FILM CLIP OF YOUR ACTUAL RAID OVER TOKYO? THANK YOU....
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| 00:44:59 |
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MADE LANDFALL, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GREEN, LUSH COUNTRY. THEN I TURNED OVER TOKYO BAY, AND IT WAS A LARGE EXPANSE OF WATER. AND I APPROACHED TOKYO, AND MY...
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| 00:45:14 |
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BOTTOM BOMB THE NAVAL YARD JUST SOUTH OF TOKYO. WITH THE INFORMATION WE HAD FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AND THE OTHER MARGS WE GOT FROM DICK COLE OR...
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| 00:47:11 |
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OUT OVER CHINA, WE WERE IN THE AIR FOR 15 1/2 HOURS. IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THAT, BY MY BEST CALCULATIONS I COULD MAKE, WE WERE GOING TO COME OUT
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| 00:47:24 |
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ABOUT 100 TO 150 MILES SHORT OF CHINA. BUT WE GOT THAT TREMENDOUS TAIL WIND ABOUT FIVE HOURS OUT FROM CHINA GOT MOST OF US TO THE MAIN LAND. TED...
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| 00:48:32 |
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THE ARMY AIR FORCES AND THE NAVY, HOW SUCCESSFULLY WAS THE MISSION KEPT SECRET UNTIL IT OCCURRED, OR DID YOU DISCOVER THAT IT WAS COMPROMISED
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| 00:48:45 |
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TO THE MEDIA OR OTHER PEOPLE?
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| 00:48:48 |
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WERE YOU ABLE TO KEEP YOUR MISSION SECRET UNTIL IT HAPPENED? >> WELL, THEY WERE CAUTIONED SORES BY COLONEL DOOLITTLE NOT TO TALK BY ANYONE. THEY PRACTICED...
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| 00:49:14 |
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IN FEBRUARY. SO MAYBE THEY HAD A CLUE AS TO WHERE THEY WERE GOING. WERE YOU CAUTIONED, DAVEY AND TOM, ABOUT TALKING? >> WE WENT UP THERE IN NEBRASKA...
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| 00:49:48 |
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US. THEY WOULDN'T LET US GO TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BECAUSE SOMEBODY MIGHT SEE US. WE DID GO TO FORTH MIRES TO THE NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE, AND...
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| 00:52:58 |
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LIKE TO TRAIN WITH COLONEL DOOLITTLE? >> WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WHAT? >> TO TRAIN WITH COLONEL
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| 00:53:11 |
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| 00:53:13 |
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| 00:53:20 |
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DOOLITTLE? >> UNDERSTAND, THIS 17TH BOMB GROUP, WE WERE
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| 00:53:24 |
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OLD PROS. WE WILL BE IN MANEUVERS FOR A YEAR. WE KNEW
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| 00:53:29 |
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THEnr B-25 GOING AND COMING. AND THIS SPEED FLIER BY THE NAME OF DOOLITTLE SHOWED UP. YOU CAN HAVE ANY KIND OF A DOUBT, BUT YOU RUN INTO THAT
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| 00:53:42 |
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GUY, AND IN 30 SECOND YOU WERE SOLD. WE WERE HIS BODY AND SOUL FROM THEN ON. HE DIDN'T SPEND MUCH TIME WITH US BECAUSE HE WAS RUNNING AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE...
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| 00:54:43 |
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BE BOOK SININGS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF
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| 00:54:47 |
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HOURS. THANK YOU FOR COMING. [APPLAUSE] >>
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| 00:55:00 |
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WHAT A THRILL TO HAVE THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS WITH US TODAY. GENTLEMEN, WE ARE HONORED BY YOUR PRESENCE. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I SHOULD POINT OUT...
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| 00:56:06 |
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DOOLITTLE, AS WELL AS HIS GRANDDAUGHTER IN THE AUDIENCE. LET'S HAVE A ROUND OF [APPLAUSE] FOR THEM. [APPLAUSE] >> WOULD OUR NEXT SPEAKER AND STUDENT...
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