America 250 - Episode 8

South Carolina

This week we are travelling to South Carolina! In February 1942, then-Lt Col Jimmy Doolittle visited Columbia Air Base to recruit the airmen who would serve as the famed Doolittle Raiders.  His words were direct: “We have a mission. Can’t tell you what it’s going be. It’s very, very dangerous. We only want volunteers.”  Visitors can learn more about this at the South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation in Columbia, plus the USS Yorktown at Patriot’s Point. South Carolina also serves as home to former NASA Administrator Maj. Gen. Charles Borden, USMC (Ret.)—who flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam and is a 4-time astronaut, including as commander of STS-31, which deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.


To learn more, please visit these websites:
South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation
USS Yorktown
Maj Gen Charles Bolden, USMC (Ret)
Clemson University-Space Force University Partnership ProgramImage Credits:Richland Library
Patriots Point Museum
South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation

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Hosts

Heather PenneyDirector of Studies and Research, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Charles GalbreathDirector and Senior Resident Fellow for Spacepower Studies, The Mitchell Institute Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence
Doug BirkeyExecutive Director, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Credits

Producer
Stephen ReasonoverSr. Multimedia Manager, Air & Space Forces Association

Executive Producer
Doug BirkeyExecutive Director, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

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