Doolittle Reunion

I just finished the book "Three Engines, Half a wing and a prayer." I wish i would of thanked a friend for his service during this time before he passed. The hell they went through even in the air.
 
My grandfather flew with Gen Doolittle in the Air Corps at some command or another prior the war, if family lore and his logbooks are accurate. Granted he died 20 years before I was born, so I never heard any stories, but I thought it was pretty cool.
 
///AMG said:
My grandfather flew with Gen Doolittle in the Air Corps at some command or another prior the war, if family lore and his logbooks are accurate. Granted he died 20 years before I was born, so I never heard any stories, but I thought it was pretty cool.
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My uncle Ralph Bagby was an ace in WWI and knew Doolittle from the air races between the wars. In WWII he was considered too old to fly fighters, but Doolittle was able to get him a spot in the troop carrier command. After the debacle at Sicily where our transports were shot down by our own navy he felt he needed a first hand look at the Normandy invasion. So he went AWOL and jumped in with the 505th. even though he had no jump experience. When he returned to England he was given a reprimand and a Silver Star. He is actually listed on the roster of the 505th from WWII. Unfortunately he was killed in a car crash enroute to a WWI reunion before I was born so I never got to meet him. I'm told he was a "character".
http://www.505rct.org/album2/bales_r.asp
 
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