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AF - Community Briefing Air Force - Tyndall Air Force Base - FL (open access)

AF - Community Briefing Air Force - Tyndall Air Force Base - FL

MEETING SUMMARY: Large delegation from Bay County visited the BRAC Commission offices to express points about proposed BRAC Actions USAF - 55 and Med - 15.
Date: July 21, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia, July 21, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia, July 21, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia. He discusses being a navigator/bombardier on the 14th plane in the Doolittle Raid, including the training leading up to the raid, the trip on the USS Hornet, the raid itself, bailing out over China, the weeks spent there before making it out through India and Egypt and stories about other men in the Raiders. He also discusses meeting with Generalissimo and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, seeing the Egyptian pyramids, crossing Africa then to Brazil before getting back to the US, landing in Miami, his later deployments in North Africa and Europe, his work after the war and reunions the Raiders have had since the war.
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Macia, James H. ""Herb""
System: The Portal to Texas History