NO BETTER MAN
HERO OF RAID ON TOKIO.
PRAISED BY AIRMAN SON.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 20.
Lieutenant James Doolittle Junr., the airman son of Brigadier-General Doolittle, the Army hero who led the bombing raid on Tokio, said enthusiastically: “I feel damn cocky about my old man.” He added: “They could not,, have picked a better man for the job.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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67NO BETTER MAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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