Jacob Daniel DeShazer

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( U.S. Air Force photo / March 21, 2008 )

Jacob Daniel DeShazer joined the Army Air Corps and volunteered for a secret mission, the historic Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II. He died March 15 at his home in Salem, Ore. He was 95.

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