Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4706 Primary Sponsor:Stone Committee Number:10 Type of Legislation:CR Subject:Doolittle Raiders Residing Body:Senate Computer Document Number:NO5/8348.BD Introduced Date:Apr 09, 1992 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:Apr 09, 1992 Last History Type:Introduced, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Stone Type of Legislation:Concurrent Resolution
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN ---- ------ ------------ ------------------------------ --- 4706 Senate Apr 09, 1992 Introduced, referred to 10 Committee 4706 House Apr 09, 1992 Introduced, adopted, sent to SenateView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO RECOGNIZE THE CELEBRATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOMBING OF TOKYO, JAPAN, APRIL 18, 1942, BY THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE RAIDERS TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1992.
Whereas, April 16-18, 1992, most of the forty-one surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tokyo bombing in Columbia; and
Whereas, President George Bush is expected to attend the event which will feature a ceremony of pageantry and music at the State Museum; and
Whereas, the first Americans to strike back at Japan following its vicious attack of Pearl Harbor were dubbed Doolittle Raiders by the wartime press in honor of Colonel James Doolittle, the mission leader; and
Whereas, eighty airmen, including Mr. Nolan Herndon of Edgefield who was a navigator, were told of their mission the night of April 1, 1942, on the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Seventy-one of the eighty airmen survived the mission; and
Whereas, the bombing mission began with a six-hour trip to Tokyo by sixteen bombers. Each bomber reached his assigned military target and dropped four bombs. Four of the sixteen bombers landed in China and one in the Soviet Union. The rest were abandoned by their crews; and
Whereas, the members of the General Assembly extend an invitation to the Doolittle Raiders to be recognized by the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate at an appropriate time Tuesday, April 14, 1992. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the members of the General Assembly recognize the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Tokyo, Japan, April 18, 1942, by the surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders and invite the Raiders to be recognized by the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate Tuesday, April 14, 1992.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mr. Nolan Herndon.