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Doolittle Raid

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• Originally published 04/14/2015

  The Horrific Unintended Consequence of Doolittle’s Courageous Raid on Tokyo

  James M. Scott

  The Chinese paid the price for American heroism.

• Originally published 02/28/2013

  WWII Doolittle Raider Tom Griffin dies at 96

  CINCINNATI — Maj. Thomas C. “Tom” Griffin, a B-25 bomber navigator in the audacious Doolittle’s Raid attack on mainland Japan during World War II, has died.His death at age 96 leaves four surviving Raiders.Griffin died Tuesday in a veterans nursing home in northern Kentucky. He was among the 80 original volunteers for the daring April 18, 1942, mission. When they began training, they were told only it would be “extremely hazardous,” coming in the aftermath of Japan’s devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and a string of other Japanese military successes....