From the September 7th Rapid City (SD) Journal "Belle Fourche's WWII Doolittle Raid pilot to be honored Saturday" by Milo Dailey Butte CountyPost.
Belle Fourche's Don Smith piloted one of the planes on the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and made it back in time to be honored and then watch the Roundup Rodeo on July 4, 1941, with his father and mother, A.W. and Laura Smith.
Afterwards, he went to England to fly land-based bombers, but died in a November plane crash before the year was out.
Smith was pilot of the B-25 No. 15 and survived a sea landing near China and made his way through Japanese occupied territory to safety.
He will be honored at the South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame in Spearfish, today, Saturday September 8th. He is already in the south Dakota Hall of Fame.
Spearfish author Paul Higbee is writing a book on Young's life.
The Greatest Generation. --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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