U.S. Army Air Force officer (1916-2009) who served as Bombardier-Navigator on plane 14 during the famed Doolittle Raid of Tokyo; he was the last Doolittle Raider to retire from active duty. ALS, three notebook pages, 8.5 x 11, September 15, 1994. Lengthy handwritten letter to an admirer about the Doolittle Raid, in part: "Those of us who were married at the time were permitted to have our wives join us at Eglin. We were cautioned by Doolittle not to tell anyone what we were doing and this applied to wives. Since our lives were among those on the lines in case of a security break I am sure that we all followed his instructions to the letter….My most memorable experience on the mission was the announcement to launch our aircraft…My immediate reaction was that we could never make it and that it was almost certain that I would not survive the day…As the day progressed our prospects improved…but I was never sure that we could make it through safely until we were in the hands of the Chinese military." In fine condition, with a couple of original whiteout corrections to the text.
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