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10-12-2007, 05:34 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Doolittle Raider Dies Nolan Herndon, 88, member of the famed Doolittle Raiders dies. AP Nolan Herndon, a member of the famed Doolittle Raiders who bombed Japan in 1942, has died. He was 88. Herndon died Sunday of pneumonia, Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home director David Burnett told The Associated Press on Monday. Herndon, a Greenville, Texas native, enlisted in Dallas on July 27, 1940, after attending two years of college, according to the Web site The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders - R.O. Joyce Memorial Site. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant about a year later. He also graduated from navigator training and completed bombardier training. Herndon participated in one of the most daring air raids in American history, when 16 B-25 bombers took off from an aircraft carrier and bombed Tokyo on April 18, 1942. The raid, planned by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, was the subject of the book and movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and the book "Four Came Home." After the raid, Herndon was interned for about a year in Russia and returned to the United States in May 1943, where he held several assignments until the end of World War II, according to the Web site. Herndon retired from active duty Nov. 4, 1945. A phone number for Herndon in Edgefield was unlisted. Funeral services were scheduled for Wednesday at Edgefield United Methodist Church, Burnett said. Herndon will be buried at Travis Park Cemetery in Saluda.
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10-12-2007, 05:49 PM
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10-12-2007, 06:16 PM
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__________________  “Let's get Enterprise and Hornet turned into the wind." Last edited by ToughOmbre; 10-12-2007 at 06:52 PM. |
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10-12-2007, 06:25 PM
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| Thanks for your bravery Nolan. Your victory in the Doolittle raid was the first of many for the US. |
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10-12-2007, 08:04 PM
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10-12-2007, 08:53 PM
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10-13-2007, 09:49 AM
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10-13-2007, 10:12 AM
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__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr |
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10-13-2007, 10:16 AM
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10-13-2007, 10:33 AM
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10-13-2007, 10:37 AM
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__________________  "A good fighter pilot, like a good boxer, should have a knockout punch..... You will find one attack you prefer to all others. Work on it till you can do it to perfection... then use it whenever possible." - Captain Reade Tilley, USAAF 7 Victories, WW-II - |
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10-13-2007, 10:47 PM
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10-19-2007, 05:59 PM
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