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Default Some pics from today...

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:59:59 -0400, RPS wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


And a pic of Bomb Island - where Doolittle practiced for his famous
Tokoyo raid.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictu...20Evinrude.jpg

More later as soon as I can get them processed.


An interesting note, years ago, when I flew into the Columbia airport,
they still had the original runaway and hanger used by Doolittle during
his training exercise. They kept the lines painted on the runaway that
the pilots used to represent the length they had on the carrier. If
they didn't lift off before they hit the line, they knew they just
landed in the ocean.


It's still there at the original airport - including an intact B-25.