Leader of WWII Bombing Raid on Japan Remembered

ABC News Saturday 5th May, 2012

Airman Edward Saylor didn't expect to come back alive when his B-25 set off for the first U.S. bomb attack on Japan during World War II. Saylor and the other 79 "Doolittle's Raiders" were forced to take off in rainy, windy conditions significantly further from Japan than planned, straining their fuel capacity. None of the 16 planes' pilots had ever taken off from an aircraft carrier before. "Some of the group thought they'd make it," Saylor...

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