DICK COLE'S WAR

摘要

On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle and 79 fellow volunteers launched from the heaving deck of USS Hornet to exact revenge against Japan for its attack on Pearl Harbor. A short time earlier, during training in Florida, Doolittle stepped up to replace one of his B-25 pilots who had fallen ill. That bomber's 26-year-old copilot, Lieutenant Richard E. "Dick" Cole, was thrilled to be flying alongside the leader of the mission because Doolittle's air racing exploits and flight-test breakthroughs in the interwar years had inspired Cole to pursue an Air Corps career.