have been a number of books but here we have "30 seconds over tokyo" with playing the role of jimmy doolittle. they claimed john birch single-handedly rescued doolittle and miss men. doolittle never would have made the claim but this is one of the ways in which birch's name was misused and was inflated. as i mentioned birch went to chun king. he was introduced to the army. he quickly made the transes significance -- transition. in his mind there was no contradiction between his former life as an evangelist and joining the army. no need to reject or deny his past. he had substituted one all-consuming passion for another, a battle against a different form of evil, a tyranny that happened to be temporal, instead of spirit all. he quite naturally expected to be a chaplain, which would afford the double opportunity to serve god and country as he put it. little did he imagine that he was about to assume a entirely new identity, not as a preacher but an intelligence officer. general claire chenault, famous commander of the flying tigers, who knew china quite well was in the process of setting up an

lo and behold it was none other than jimmy doolittle with his crew of men who had just bomb tokyo. in april 1942 john birch was the 1st white man that any of them had seen. and because birch spoke chinese asked birch if you would accompany them and help them out, which he did for a few weeks. this was his introduction to the military and this was the transition from missionary life to military life. birch was helpful to doolittle and his men who as you may know launched be 25 bombers, 16 planes, total of 80 men from the uss hornet. about 500 miles to the east of tokyo. that is not just bomb tokyo, by the way, they bought five or six different cities in japan. no one had ever launched a bomber from an aircraft carrier. no one imagined it could be done, but doolittle was fearless and figured out how. the problem was you could not lend an airplane, the sizable bomber on an aircraft carrier. so the plan was to fly from japan to judge on province there was a miscommunication they arrived inthey arrived in the middle of the night in a rainstorm instead of the day, as was scheduled. the c

as a matter of fact, dick cole, who was jimmy doolittle's co-pilot has been to this event twice and he 102 years old. so are pretty incredible. obviously the window is tightening and for them to be able to take this trip together with their fellow veterans and see this national museum, which i wish everyone in the country was able to see, there's no place that you can feel the thin line between freedom and tyranny more than walking through this historical place of honor. >> how oftawesome is that guy? you can find out more at his website garysinise foundation.oorks rg. >>> still ahead live, we are tracking a couple of treacherous weather systems. the worst may be still to come in texas where flooding already claimed four lives. >>> we will take you to south carolina where the remnants of tropical storm bon bonnie dangerous. we stop arthritis pain, so you don't have to stop. tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. the first is fast. the second lasts all day. we give you your day back. what you do with it is up to you. tylenol®. mobility is very important to me. that's

been a missionary, he'd been a military office, he'd helped -- according to welch -- to rescue jimmy doolittle. he was described by noland and then welch as the first casualty of world war iii. the first casualty of the cold war. the first victim at the hands of the communists. but equally important to welch was the idea, his belief that there was a conspiracy to cover up the death of john birch. the secret file, the top secret file on birch's death was not released until after nixon's visit to china in 1972 as a result of a freedom of information request. robert welch realized it was the geopolitical context that gave john birch story a greater snaps. he noted -- sentence. significance. he noted he committed to nations to his creed, but his murder illuminated a crossroads of is civilization. in one direction toward greater freedom, further growth and more enlightenment. as welch put it, with his death and in his death the battle lines are drawn. if birch had sacrificed his life in some other country -- this is me now, not robert welch -- say greece or india, it would have mattered far less. t