Leader of WWII bombing raid on Japan remembered

Lt. Col. Edward Saylor, right, talks with USS Hornet volunteer Roger Felton as they look at an old photograph before a news conference to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Tokyo attack by the Doolittle Raiders on the USS Hornet in Alameda, Calif. on Saturday.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Airman Edward Saylor didn’t expect to come back alive when his B-25 set off for the first U.S. bomb attack on Japan during World War II.

Saylor and the other 79 “Doolittle’s Raiders” were forced to take off in rainy, windy conditions...

Published: 05/06/2012