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100 1  Okerstrom, Dennis R.,|d1946-|eauthor. 
245 10 Dick Cole's war :|bDoolittle raider, hump pilot, air 
       commando /|cDennis R. Okerstrom. 
264  1 Columbia, Missouri :|bUniversity of Missouri Press,
       |c[2015] 
264  4 |c©2015 
300    1 online resource. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  American military experience series 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303) and 
       index. 
505 0  Foreword / by General Arthur J. Lichte, USAF (Ret.) -- 
       Preface -- Prologue -- The raid -- The hump -- The 
       invasion -- Epilogue. 
505 0  Prologue -- The raid -- The Hump -- The invasion -- 
       Epilogue. 
520    With the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 7, 
       2015 Dick Cole has long stood in the powerful spotlight of
       fame that has followed him since his B-25 was launched 
       from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four 
       months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In recognition 
       the tremendous boost Doolittle's Raid gave American morale,
       members of The Tokyo Doolittle Raiders were awarded the 
       Congressional Gold Medal in May 2014. Doolittle's Raid was
       only the opening act of Cole's flying career during the 
       war. When that mission was complete and all of the 16 
       aircraft had crash-landed in China, many of the survivors 
       were assigned to combat units in Europe. Cole remained in 
       India after their rescue and was assigned to Ferrying 
       Command, flying the Hump of the Himalayas for a year in 
       the world's worst weather, with inadequate aircraft, few 
       aids to navigation, and inaccurate maps. More than 600 
       aircraft with their crews were lost during this monumental
       effort to keep China in the war, but Cole survived and 
       rotated home in 1943. He was home just a few months when 
       he was recruited for the First Air Commandos and he 
       returned to India to participate in Project 9, the aerial 
       invasion of Burma. 
588 0  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title
       page (EBSCO, viewed December 3, 2015). 
600 10 Cole, Richard Eugene,|d1915-2019 
610 10 United States.|bArmy Air Forces|vBiography. 
650  0 Air pilots, Military|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Bomber pilots|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, American. 
650  7 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science.|2bisacsh 
830  0 American military experience series. 
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