Heroes or Bums

摘要

This is another General Doolittle story ["Letters: Meeting Jimmy," July, p. 5]:rnI served in the 97th Bomb Group in England, which was the bomb group that did the first daylight raid on occupied Europe with B-17s. Inthe [Imperial] War Museum in London, that raid is listed as one of the most important events of World War II. As duty officer of the headquarters base of the 97th Bomb Group, I was in charge of the base at the time of the bombing attack on Europe. I will never forget that on the blackboard in the operations room, there was written, "Ruin Rouen" [the French city whose railroad marshaling yards were bombed by the unit]. In any event, sometime after that raid, we had an important visitfrom General Doolittle.