Sergeant Jacob Eierman

Jacob Eierman was born on 02 February 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland. His faher was  John George Eierman and his mother named Henrietta Emma Eierman (Weisheit)

He was married to Marion R. Eierman (Meyers). The couple had at least 3 daughters. Cynthia,  Jeanne Marvin, Tavernier. A 4th daughter could have been Ocoee as mentioned on his obituary. His wife died on 12 January 1980. Not much is known about his younger years. 

The bombing attack of the raiders above Japan was delivered at 15:20 (-10 zone time) and the targets attacked were (1) Military Barracks in Nagaya Castle Grounds, (2) Oil and Storage warehouse, (3) Military Arsenal, (4) Mitsuibishi Aircraft plant south of Nogaya. All the targets were the originally selected ones and all were squarely hit with incendiary clusters. Bombing approach was made at minimum altitude and bombs were dropped at 1500 feet and 200 m.p.h. Indicated.

The rear gunner saw many small fires start and when we were thirty miles south on and way out and approximately 10 minutes after the bombing we could see a tall column of heavy black smoke over the city. I would estimate the height of the column to be 5000 feet and the mushroom head on the column would indicate very intense fires.

Doolittle raiders James Macia,  Jack Sims, Jacob Eierman, and  John Hilger in China, 20 April 1942. Bain is not on the picture. Bain teamed up with the rest of his crew late in the evening of 20 April 1942.

James Macia, crew 14''s navigator-bombardier, said in an article later :  I spent the night on the hill, trying unsuccessfully to sleep in intermittent rain. In the morning, I walked into a village and became the focus of people who had never seen a non-Oriental before. Eventually, I came across  Jake Eierman, Plane 14’s engineer. As we walked through the countryside, we were passed from person to person and began to feel as if we were captives.

Others have told me they had the same experience of feeling at times that they were possibly prisoners of war. I think it was sort of an attitude, a sense of proprietorship, that each would take, of assuming the authority over the previous person to take over these people who had fallen into their hands. After receiving a scare from some soldiers who we thought might be Japanese, Eierman and I found Hilger and then Lieutenant Jack Sims, the co-pilot, as well as a town where there were English-speaking people. Late that night, Bain turned up.

Above left upper corner pilot Hilger of crew 14 - Above right upper corner navigator-bombardier James H. Macia Jr., crew 14.

The Doolittle raider left on the bed is (I'm not 100% sure) flight engineer Jacob Eierman, crew 14. See also picture below. 

Jacob Eierman died of natural causes 16 January 1994 in Baltimore, Maryland. By then he was 80 years old and living in Olympic Park Circle, Ocoee, Florida. He was a retired supervisor of the courts for Dade County, Florida.

Jacob was Protestant. He was a member of the Morocco Shrine, Jacksonville, Masonic Lodge, Fort Walton Beach, and ofcourse the Doolittle's Raiders.

Jacob was a member of the Morocco Shrine, Jacksonville, Florida

Jacob was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Fort Walton Beach

and ofcourse he was a member of the Doolittle's Raiders

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