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Sergeant Jacob D. Deshazer's Hornet-based B-25 bombed Nagoya in 1942 and then got lost in the mists of the China coast. Deshazer chuted down and was taken prisoner by the Japs. As he lay hungry, in solitary confinement, Sergeant Deshazer had a vision. A forgiving God spoke to him in the words of the Sermon on the Mount: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them which do spitefully use you, and persecute...
...Chungking's Seven Dragon Slope airdrome. They were thin, and their faces were old and unsmiling. To fresh young U.S. flyers on the field, they seemed like apparitions from another war, another age. They had only now ended a flight begun from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet three years, four months and one week before. They were some of Jimmy Doolittle's men who had bombed Japan...
They spent long periods in solitary confinement. Finally the Japs brought them hot water, gave them a shave and a haircut, and told them the war was over. They did not know what to believe; they had heard no news since leaving the Hornet. Finally, a U.S. rescue team parachuted down, took them out of their Peiping cells...
...Enterprise, to within a thousand miles of Tokyo, and sent her planes to bomb tiny Marcus Island. Six weeks later he stood on the same carrier's flag bridge and watched Lieut. Colonel (now Lieut. General) Jimmy Doolittle's ill-fated B-25s fly off the Hornet to carry to Tokyo the first token...
This time, the twister set a collision course for the task group commanded by Rear Admiral Joseph ("Jocko") Clark, and the Cherokee Admiral got it head on. Proud ships like the Hornet and Bennington (27,000-ton carriers) had as much as 25 feet of their steel-braced flight decks peeled back by the waves; parked planes were picked up and tossed aside in a jumble of wreckage; exposed gun mounts, built out from the ships' sides, were crushed...