Sergeant David W. Pohl

David William Pohl was the son of Robert Anton Pohl and Martha Elizabeth (Wessling) Pohl.  He had one sister named Dorothy "Dot" Pohl. He was born on 31 December 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts.

David William Pohl never married and had no children. He graduated Wellesley High School in 1939.  

David - 1931 

Later after the war he graduated in 1951 from Babson College in Boston - BS degree in bussiness administration.

Sergeant David W. Pohl (Crew 8) was the youngest Doolittle Raider that took part in the mission. Sergeant Waldo J. Bither (Crew 12) was the oldest Doolittle Raider who participated in the Doolittle Raid (except James Doolittle).

1951 - with mother, Martha WESSLING, sister Dot and father, Robert Anton POHL - after graduation from Babson College

Members of the Doolittle Raid at the 15th anniversary of the Doolittle raid in Fort Walton, Florida 1957.

(top row, left to right) Frank Kapeller of Crew 11, Fred Braemer of Crew 1, Horace Crouch of Crew 10, Edwin Horton of Crew 10, Douglas Radney of Crew 2, Everett Holstrom of Crew 4, David Pohl of Crew 8, William Bower of Crew 12, Edward York of Crew 8, Waldo Bither of Crew 12, and Richard Cole of Crew 1.

(middle row, left to right) Adam R. Williams of Crew 13, Jack Sims of Crew 14, Robert Emmens of Crew 8, David Jones of Crew 5, Charles McClure of Crew 7, Harold Watson of Crew 9, Eldred Scott of Crew 9, Joseph Manske of Crew 5, Richard Joyce of Crew 10, Carl Wildner of Crew 2, Jacob DeShazer of Crew 16, Ted Lawson of Crew 7, and William Pound of Crew 12.

(standing holding the plaque, left to right) James Doolittle of Crew 1 and John Hilger of Crew 14.

(bottom row sitting, left to right) William Fitzhugh of Crew 2, Thadd Blanton of Crew 12, David Thatcher of Crew 7, unknown (probably Bert Jordan or Robert Stephens of Crew 4), Jacob Eierman of Crew 14, Nolan Herndon of Crew 8, Travis Hoover of Crew 2, James Macia of Crew 14, and Robert Hite of Crew 16.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. 

Interview with B-25 crew - crew 8 - that bombed Tokyo and was interned by the Russians

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