Doolittle Raider Pilot Dies:

June 13, 2007

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Retired Col. Jack Ahren Sims died June 9 in Naples, Fla., at age 88. Sims was one of the pilots of the famed Doolittle Raiders, flying off the USS Hornet to attack the Japanese Home islands in April 1942.

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