Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle And the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
“—TOKYO RADIO, APRIL 21, 1943 THE AIRCREWS TRICKLED IN day after day to Chuchow. Davy Jones and his men arrived first on April 19, followed by the crews of Bill Bower, Ross Greening, and Jack Hilger. Sometimes an entire crew arrived; occasionally, just a single aviator. By the time Doolittle appeared on April 26, fifty-six airmen had been found. After days alone in the Chinese wilderness the reunions among friends were heartfelt, a sentiment best captured by Hilger in his diary. “It was like a h...omecoming and we were all as happy as kids,” he wrote. “There’s nothing like a familiar face in a foreign country.”
Arrival in Chuchow capped an exotic adventure for most of the raiders, who had hiked down out of the mountains, often aided by Chinese guerrillas, villagers, and even a few foreign missionaries. “Everywhere we went we were the center of attraction and everyone seemed to know all about us,” navigator Carl Wildner recalled. “We were oddities as well as celebrities.”MoreLess
Arrival in Chuchow capped an exotic adventure for most of the raiders, who had hiked down out of the mountains, often aided by Chinese guerrillas, villagers, and even a few foreign missionaries. “Everywhere we went we were the center of attraction and everyone seemed to know all about us,” navigator Carl Wildner recalled. “We were oddities as well as celebrities.”MoreLess
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