'To Those Who Have Gone': Air & Space Forces Association Revives Doolittle Raiders' Toast in Worldwide Event
April 27, 2024
April 27, 2024
ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 27 -- The Air and Space Forces Association issued the following news release:
By Patrick Reardon
It's been eight decades since AFA's founding president, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, and his fellow Raiders first raised a glass to their fallen comrades of the legendary air raid over Tokyo in 1942, and five years since the last surviving Raider passed away. But on April 18--the 82nd anniversary of the raid--hundreds of Airmen, Guardians, veterans, and A . . .
By Patrick Reardon
It's been eight decades since AFA's founding president, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, and his fellow Raiders first raised a glass to their fallen comrades of the legendary air raid over Tokyo in 1942, and five years since the last surviving Raider passed away. But on April 18--the 82nd anniversary of the raid--hundreds of Airmen, Guardians, veterans, and A . . .