Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)
(October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)

The song ‘Juke Box Saturday Night’ is more notable as the last Top Ten
hit issued by Glenn Miller as a civilian performer. In September of 1942,
Miller enlisted in the war effort and was transferred from the Army to the
Army Air Corps.
Alton Glenn Miller born in Clarinda, Iowa.
(March 1, 1904 – missing in action December 15, 1944)
David Thatcher was an Army Air Force gunner who helped save four wounded crewmen.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – One of the last two surviving members of the Doolittle
Raiders — who bombed Japan in an attack that stunned that nation and boosted
U.S. morale — has died in Montana.
His family said retired Staff Sgt. David Jonathan Thatcher died Wednesday in a
Missoula hospital. His son Jeff said he suffered a stroke on Sunday.
Thatcher’s death leaves Retired Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole of Comfort, Texas,
as the only living airman from among 80 who took off from an aircraft carrier in
16 B-25 bombers to target factory areas and military installations in Japan on
April 18, 1942. Afterward, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air
Force, the planes headed for airfields in mainland China, realizing they would
run out of fuel,
After his military career, Thatcher worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 30 years
as a clerk and later a letter carrier. He retired in 1980.
A Mitchell B-25 bomber taking off for the initial air raid on Tokyo, in
1942.
Born in the U.S.A.became Bruce Springsteen’s most commercially
successful album and one of the highest-selling records ever, selling
30 million copies by 2012. It has also been cited by critics as one of
the greatest albums of all time.
