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GUEST: (retired) COL. ROBERT VENKUS, U.S. AIR FORCE, talks about the 1986 bombing mission, the longest in our military history, a 14-hour round trip that he helped to lead. The target was Tripoli. Libya, and the mission was a success.
NOTE: Frank shows a documentary that he produced about the April 1942 bombing of Tokyo by Col. Jimmy Doolittle's Raiders, the first major U.S. success in WW2.
TOM VINCE tells of the founding of the Hudson's American Legion Lee-Bishop Post 464, its origins and the man who founded it in 1920, Dr. George A. Miller, WRA class of 1897, who served in the medical corps of WWI, partnered in opening Saywell's Drug Store & Pharmacy, the physician at the Cleveland Boy's Farm on Hines Hill, and collected 19th century photos of Hudson in the archives of the Hudson Library & Historical Society.