This whole week, the Tuskegee Airmen and Doolittle's Raiders have been honored at the huge Experimetal Aircraft Association doings in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A well-deserved honor for the dwindling numbers of these great groups.
These two groups fought a common enemy but from two completely different angles. The Raiders attack on Japan didn't do a lot of damage, but was great for US morale, coming so soon after Pearl Harbor and the losses in the early part of the war.
The Airmen not only had to fight the enemy, but had to overcome racist bias.
I did not see how many from each group were in attendance. But, at least five of the surving Raiders were on hand.
A Well-Deserved Honor. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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