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Thomas Griffin, 95, is among the five remaining men of the 79 who flew with then-Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle on his historic bombing mission over Japan on April 19, 1942. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Richard E. Cole, then 96 is this file photo, is among the five remaining men of the 79 who flew with then-Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle on his historic bombing mission over Japan on April 19, 1942. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Doolittle sits above the U.S. Army Air Force insignia on his B-25 bomber, which crashed in China. Without enough fuel for a round trip, his men flew to China after the raid. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Army Air Corps Maj. Gen. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle fastens a medal on the tail of a 500-pound bomb that his raiders dropped on Tokyo on April 18, 1942. Eighty men in 16 planes surprised the Japanese and shattered their sense of being impregnable. (Associated Press)
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Four unidentified Doolittle crewmen who bailed out over China are escorted through a Chinese village before being reunited with others. China was a U.S. ally where the Raiders planned to reunite. (Army Air Force via Associated Press)
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In the year since African Union and Somali troops pushed Islamist militants out of the capital of Mogadishu, Somali children are free to ride their bicycles in the streets of the seaside capital, and people can enjoy the beaches, go out to dinner and dance at weddings. "The city is returning to normal now," said banker Liban Abdi Igal, who was recently living in Maryland. "I have returned here with optimism after seeing progress and revival." (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Barnaba Benjamin Marial (right), the South Sudanese minister of information, and military spokesman Philip Aguer brief the media on March 27, 2012, in Juba, South Sudan, about recent fighting between Sudanese and South Sudanese forces along the north-south border. (Associated Press)
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Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terrorism suspects sought to block their extradition from Britain to the U.S., claiming they faced "torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" in American custody. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Iraqi Shiite Muslims venerate Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a man of influence in Iraq who is revered as well as by Shiites around the world. He is now 81 years old and has lived in seclusion for years. (Associated Press)
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Shiites pray at the Shrine of Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the 7th century Prophet Muhammad and the first Imam of the Shiites, in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad. Shiism is the dominant faith in Iraq. (Associated Press)
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Gen. John Allen (left), the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, claps with Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak on April 8, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan, after signing an agreement document governing night raids by American troops. (Associated Press)
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Victims of a suicide attack are transported in the back of a police pickup truck to the hospital in Guzara, Afghanistan, in Herat province, on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)
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**FILE** Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, gestures as he arrives for a detention hearing at a court in Oslo, Norway, on Feb. 6, 2012. (Associated Press/Scanpix Norway)
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** FILE ** Self-styled cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri leads his followers in prayer outside Finsbury Park Mosque in London in January 2004 on the first anniversary of its closure by anti-terrorism police. (AP Photo/John D. McHugh)
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South Korean soldiers watch a TV news program on Monday showing North Korea's Unha-3 rocket. North Korea moved all three stages of the long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch, vowing to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity. (Associated Press)
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Aloysat Gasimov (right) was one of the first Azeri officials to reach the scene of the massacre in Khojaly 20 years ago. The student beside him holds a photo of Mr. Gasimov, now the head of a cultural center near the site of the 1992 massacre, kneeling next to a victim. (Eric J. Lyman/Special to The Washington Times)
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Relatives mourn for Ali Shaaban, a cameraman for the Al Jadeed television station who was filming in Lebanon's northern Wadi Khaled area when he was fatally shot in the chest by Syrian government forces. (Associated Press)
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A relative embraces former hostage Jorge Romero at police headquarters in Bogota on April 4. Even if the FARC releases all its captives, many obstacles remain for talks aimed at ending a half-century of conflict in Colombia. (Associated Press)
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Former hostages Cesar Augusto Lasso (from left), Jose Forero, Jorge Romero, Carlos Duarte and Wilson Rojas greet each other at police headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, on April 4. The men had spent between 12 and 14 years in jungle prisons. They were captured when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia was at the height of its military strength. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A small boat passes in front of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise, anchored off the coast of Faliro, Greece, near Athens, on Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
