TARGET 120808

DOOLITTLE RAIDER'S 70th REUNION


Flying to the reunion
Flying to the reunion

NOTICE TO VIEWERS

The reunion was chosen by Teresa Frisch for the Wednesday night free webinar * she holds on a bi-weekly basis. We at PSI use the targets she selects on this day so viewers will not wind up getting two different targets with the same set of coordinates.

Videos of all of Teresa's webinars are available on YouTube

Possible warning:
Neither the reunion nor celebration parts of this target are negative nor do they contain military activity, but there are viewers who either fear or do not want to be exposed to military targets, considering everything military as negative and violent. But because advanced viewers using this target will make timelines, seek historical information, etc., feedback must be provided for them. Therefore, I have put background military information at the bottom of this feedback package

Therefore, if you want or need to avoid exposure to possible negative emotions or to anything military, please skip the last three paragraphs (the ones between the yellow lines, at the bottom of this feedback package) None of that information is necessary for scoring perceptions concerning the reunion, which is the actual target.

The B-25 plane
Flying to the ceremony
The heroes ride to the reunion in their old plane

The five remaining Raiders were honored by being flown to the celebration in restored B-25 planes. The planes began their flight at Grimes Field, Urbana, Ohio and traveled together for a reunion at the military museum of Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Fairborn / Dayton Ohio.

At Wright Patterson, there was a "fly in" ceremony as the B-25 planes landed and the Raiders emerged from the planes.

NOTE TO VIEWERS: As fate would have it, the reunion year that Teresa chose was for their 70th reunion (2012). There is virtually no information or pictures available for that reunion. The few pictures that were available were owned by a single person who copyrighted them, so were not readily available for use. But the following year's reunion was a repeat of the 70th except for the fact that only three of the Raiders were able to attend. The pictures and text that follow are of the 71st reunion, but are valid feedback for all the perceptions and impressions you may have gotten, and for scoring your session.

Honoring heroes
Each airman was asked to tell his personal story

Several thousand people attended the ceremony, complete with autograph signing in the museum hangars. A huge U.S. flag provided the backdrop for the line of people waiting for autographs and to purchase memorabilia.

The goblet ceremony
The formal "Goblet Ceremony"

Each year's reunion ends with a formal ceremony centered around a case of 80 silver goblets - one for each of the airmen who volunteered to be a Doolittle Raider. The goblets were presented to the Raiders in 1959 by the city of Tucson, Ariz. Each Raiders' goblet is engraved twice, the second upside-down so the name will be readable whether the goblet is right side up (to signify a still living Raider or upside down (to signify a Raider who has passed on, either from battle or from illness or age. During the ceremony, white-gloved cadets poured cognac into the goblets of the Raiders in attenence, and a toast is made to all 80 of the men.

FEEDBACK MAP

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If you got impressions for which this feedback is insufficient, more information,
pictures and videos can be found at the following web sites:

Doolittle Raiders official web site
Video of the flyover at the reunion
Excellent reunion pictures
Wikipedia - The Doolittle Raid
Children of the Doolittle Raiders' Facebook page
Video of the gathering of the B-25 planes
Pictures (of the 71st reunion)


Many thanks to Teresa Frisch for this target.
Her web page is http://www.aestheticimpact.com
To sign up for her Wednesday Webinars (recommended) click here .



* Teresa's Wednesday night webinars are free and extremely instructive, especially to novice, untrained, and self-trained viewers. I very highly recommend them for all viewers, no matter the degree of training and/or experience. A link to the webinar site is given in the referal links at the bottom of this feedback package.


Historic Background information

The months following the attack on Pearl Harbor were the darkest of World War II, as Imperial Japanese forces rapidly extended their reach across the Pacific. The U.S. military was caught completely off guard, was forced to retreat, and lost many men in the fall of he Philippines, leading to the infamous Bataan Death March.

By spring, 1942, the Japanese High Command grew more confident in their supremacy over the Pacific, and began stepping up their operations, extending their territory closer to the point of trying to take over territory in the U.S., Canada, and Central America.

On April 18, 1942, a group of eighty volunteer airmen in 16 B-25 bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, led by (then Col.) Jimmy Doolittle. They were to fly over Japan, drop their bombs and fly on to land in a part of China that was still free. Of course, things do not always go as planned. There was no intelligence information on Japanese targets, so the raid had to be done by simply looking out the window and guessing what was a military target and what was not. The USS Hornet was situated 700 miles from Japan, and that stretched the limit of how far the planes could go on a tank of gas. There were no places en route to refill. In short, this was the U.S. military's equivalent of the Japanese kamakazi runs. Certainly, many brave volunteers were lost on that day. Yet, the Doolittle Raid proved to the Japanese High Command that their home islands were not invulnerable to American attacks. It caused them to shift offensive resources to their defense. Two months later that decision would play a role in the outcome of the Battle of Midway, the American victory that would begin to turn the tide in the Pacific War. Had it not been for the Doolittle Raiders, some military analysts are certain that the entire Pacific arena and possibly a large part of the Americas would belong to a highly oppressive emperial Japan, today. A 45 minute video of the raid is available here .

End of historic background information