Oct 08
Nolan Herndon Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 23:27 · 68 words · print
Nolan Herndon, a member of the famed Doolittle Raiders who bombed Japan in 1942, has died. He was 88.
Herndon died Sunday of pneumonia, Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home director David Burnett told The Associated Press on Monday.
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Herndon participated in one of the most daring air raids in American history, when 16 B-25 bombers took off from an aircraft carrier and bombed Tokyo on April 18, 1942.
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