... Eglin AFB, March 25, 1942 After three weeks of training often interrupted by bad weather - Yet we are in Florida - the future raiders were finally deemed fit for service.
Yet they are only twenty-three crews, following the removal of two B-25, one to crash on takeoff, the other grounded due to mechanical problems unfathomable.
the early hours of March 25 and still in the utmost secrecy, twenty-three B-25 thus leaving Eglin flights to Sacramento (California), where they must be carefully inspected and serviced before the boarding.
A final stroke of the wing and, on March 31 after a new phase of six additional B-25, sixteen lucky winners - including 02,261 "Ruptured Duck" - finally arrive at the Naval Air Station (NAS) of Alameda , to discover the aircraft carrier Hornets, who have been waiting over a week. For the airmen, but also to the sailors of the Hornet, why the exercises from previous weeks is now easy to understand.
But the ultimate goal of these - ie of the mission itself - remains a mystery ... including the commander of the ship, Admiral Marc Mitscher , which, for lack of a Wikileaks which has not yet been invented, the apparatus will have to wait. and the open sea, to open his sealed orders and finally discover the answers to these questions ...
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