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Frankie Trumbauer, famed hot-saxophoning crony of the late great cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, was a new test pilot at a Kansas City plane plant-putting B-25s through their first aerial paces...
...over the plain twelve of our B-25s unloaded their bombs on a German concentration, and there, too, smoke billowed up, black and grey. That was our imitation of nature. Ten minutes later the bombers passed over our heads and two of the escorting fighters came down and 'buzzed' the crater of Vesuvius. We envied them that bird's-eye view. For us there was nothing but to toil up afoot...
...Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will continue until either the Jap's or our air force is wiped out." After four days of onslaughts by heavy, high-flying bombers and tree-shaving B-25s, the Jap force, desperately reinforced by planes from Rabaul and Kavieng, was wiped out. By week's end Whitehead's pilots had destroyed 223 Jap planes on the ground and 83 in the air, which brought to well over 500 the number of Jap planes destroyed in the Southwest...
...clock our planes dived one by one on some target behind Troina. Because-there was no flak, we figured the enemy might be withdrawing. The sounds of battle grew less, and finally, when a heavy formation of B-25s struck at the town at 7 o'clock, we stood boldly up on our ridge and watched. All firing seemed to have ceased, as if both sides were watching the blasting of Troina, which, though only a mile away, vanished again behind the curtain of black smoke...
Shangri-La. One afternoon at the end of March, 16 B-25s were spaced trimly over the aircraft carrier Hornet's flight deck. Off on either side steamed cruisers and destroyers. The next morning, Doolittle told them officially what the mission was, gave them choice of city: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Magoya. They were to land at small Chinese airfields, refuel and meet at Chungking. It would be single-file, hit-&-run, each crew on its own. "If we all get to Chungking, I'll throw the biggest goddamn party you ever...