signed, jimmy doolittle. may 27, 1976. my dear friends, this is why i will say that the doolittle will be the most heroic most touching, most moving episode of the u.s. china wartime cooperation when china was in the leadership. of chang kai-shek. and that episode deserves our heart felt remembrance generation after generation. this is why i was very surprised that last month i went to a special photo exhibition about wartime u.s. china cooperation co-sponsored by a research institute in china and a think tank here. and i was surprised that out of some 150 or 200 photos there was not even one about general doolittle and his missions. instead to my surprise, maybe there was one hiding somewhere i didn't find. but to say the least he was outnumbered tremendously by the picture of american army colonel. and who was this colonel? and he was the chief of u.s. military liaison section during the wartime. so the colonel had lot of pictures of people like mao zedong so they showed those pictures instead. this is why today i appreci

and you also talked about jimmy doolittle who was really an awful lot. >> i was very fortunate to get to know the general, as he likes to be known as general jimmy. and of course he came back to world dominance as verse two national prominence within april april 1942 bombing wave of tokyo and five other cities in that area this includes twin-engine bombers from an aircraft carrier and that aspect of it worked and it turned out that they had to launch a few hundred miles earlier than expected where all the planes except for one ran out of fuel. that brought him up to brigadier general and he received the medal of honor and he was almost immediately sent to north africa when he learned the general business running the north african allied air forces. so by the time he came to italy in november of 1943, he was a known quantitive and he was only there two months before eisenhower who called him to britain to take over this air force. >> so the weather didn't cooperate for d-day. you had very low cloud cover and you indicated that the bombers actually ended up eating too far back to really

and from jimmy doolittle's raters. aiders. airmen recounted it discriminatory practices they experienced in the services. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> good morning. fingers crossed, i am an aspiring naval aviator. i have the honor of introducing veterans of the first thecan-american unit, tuskegee airmen. we have the pleasure of hearing from these dedicated and to determine the men. including jim, a former radio operator. anderson.r pilot cadet. and finally, stephen mccoy, chairman of the speakers bureau. join me inome me -- welcoming these brave men of the gee airmen.- tuske [applause] >> good morning. i would like to thank the wonderful introduction. and i would like to go ahead and give her a round of applause. [applause] i would like to thank cadet nicole for her wonderful introduction of us. hereuskegee airmen seated and i would like to welcome you s panel discussion. we wisho d we -- toshare our special thanks wes smith. i would like to start off with a brief introduction. have ivanore you, you are and major a

i remember many years ago when i was decorated, one of the guys there was jimmy doolittle. the medal of honor recipient. i was actually in the room with doolittle. he came up and took me in the corner. he said let me tell you something, son. you're no longer jack jacobs. you're jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient. there's an argument that says once you're a seal you're always a seal and you can't act any differently for the rest of your life. >> seeing the commanding aufrgs of the seals make this public statement, both talking to seals and saying it publicly, this is our culture. this is the cultural norm here and we will enforce it, essentially, within our community is a message to us about the seals as much as it is a sort of rebuke of anything going on in that community. it's a rebuke of our desire to know absolutely everything. >> retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs. our nation's highest military award. thank you for being here, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> while we were still trying to figure out how tuesday's elections will change the way we do politics, one p

. >> con spir yous gallantry -- >> do you know who jimmy doolittle was. >> yes, sir. >> put his arm aroundroom and he said, young man, he said, you're no longer jack jacobs. he said, you're jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient, and he better behave accordingly. do you understand what i'm saying? >> it definitely weighs on me, knowing the responsibility that i'm going to have. and i'm not, i guess, timid or scared in any way. i am excited for the opportunity to represent the military and this nation. but it's definitely, i guess, a double-edged sword. >> almost everything, even if it's good, we hang together trying to help each other out because we do know we don't wear the award for ourselves. we wear it for all those people who can't. who served and sacrificed. who performed valiantly and nobody saw them or somebody saw them, but they died themselves. you have a real heavy burden not just because you're a medal of honor recipient, but because there's so few. and you're relatively young. so the burden is going to fall on you and the other guys of your age to carry on talking about service

and from jimmy doolittle's raters. aiders. >>