European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 29, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 a a. A. Is amps Dave do Diotis general Sall washed up Brig. Gen. Paul a. Blackwell takes a urday in West Germany. The comm the bulls Eye. Her husband is master Day from 11 . To 5 . At Wolfgang dive a and later wrings out his socks nity commander spent a half hour get sgt Ray Sweatt from Hanau a equal Cavern include other Booths perform during the Hanau army Community Ting dunked by people such As Lisa employment Opportunity office. The Mance groups a skating exhibition service s 25th birthday Celebration sat Sweatt Cente who cheers As she hits festivities which were continuing Sun children activities and  returning to find planes Eden Prairie Minn. Apr forty eight years after a group of american pilots known As Doolittle a raiders pierced the skies of Japan during world War ii the squadrons navigator is helping to search for planes that crashed. Retired col. Henry a. Potter said Friday that he will join the search in China a Zhenjiang province where his b-25b bomber and four others went Down after their Mission of april 18, 1942. It was the first successful air raid against Japan during world War ii. The 16-plane Squadron from the aircraft Carrier Hornet boosted the morale of the american Public following the december 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The plane flown by col. Jimmy Doolittle was the first fully loaded bomber Ever to take off from an aircraft Carrier. The Mission was so secret that even president Franklin d. Roosevelt was not informed said Potter 71, of Austin Texas. Doolittle trained the Crews for the Short Carrier takeoffs at a Landing strip in Florida. Potter was the navigator of Doolittle s Lead bomber. A i done to think we exhibited any More courage than anyone else a Potter said recalling the Takeoff. A i done to think any of us thought about anything other than that we were doing our  the skies cleared before the planes reached their targets and the bombs were dropped successfully on key Industrial Sites. The bombers tried to flee japanese airspace and land on Mainland China but Stormy weather made it impossible for them to reach Safe Haven. One of the planes landed in the soviet Union. The other 15 landed in the water near the chinese coast or crashed after the Crews bailed out according to an official War department report. All 80 Crew members made it to the ground safely a expedition Leader Bryan Moon left and retired col. Henry a. Potter stand by a b-25 bomber at the flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie Minn., on Friday. But eight were captured by the japanese. Of those three were executed one died in prison and four were released when the War ended the government report said. Forty four of the original Doolittle raiders including Doolittle Are still alive Potter noted. Doolittle is 93 and lives in Carmel Calif. Potter said that there has been talk about searching for the planes Over the years but that the expedition near the Mountain villages of Linan and Suzhou South of Shanghai will be the first. Bryan Moon an artist and Amateur historian is leading the expedition. A this was one of the most important events in american aviation history Quot Moon said. Quot it needs to have the is dotted and the to a  aside from Potter none of the expedition members has links to the bombing Mission. The group will leave Minneapolis on sept. 6 for a three week visit to China. Moon 62, a former airline executive who lives in Minnesota has led expeditions around the world. In 1986, he discovered the grave in Kenya of Joy Adamson the lion Lover made famous by the Book and movie Quot bom  he also served As an artist for the North and South pole expeditions of explorer will Steger. Among the other expedition members is photographer Arthur Gibson 64, of Middlesex England. The Doolittle expedition is being paid for by the participants. It has the full cooperation of provincial government officials chinese Consul Xianglin Zhao said. A i am very Happy that this group can go to China on this historical Mission a he said. Quot i wish them Good  hostages release Likely Iran paper says Nicosia Cyprus a to Clos an iranian newspaper with close ties to Tehran a government said Friday that Frances release of five moslem terrorists increases the chances that a european hostage will be freed soon in Lebanon. Anis Naccache sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two people during a failed assassination attempt ordered by Iran was freed Friday after spending 10 years in prison. Naccache and three members of his group were sentenced to life in prison for a july 18, 1980, attempt to kill Shahpour Bakhtiar Iran a prime minister before the 1979 islamic revolution in Paris. A fifth member of the team who did not open fire was sentenced to 20 years in prison. All five were released Friday and flew to Iran. The English language Tehran times said in an editorial published saturday that Naccache a release Quot can even be expected to add to the optimism that has Een created for the release of one or two european  an official iranian news Agency report said on july 7 that a european hostage would soon be released. Syrian military sources in Lebanon said the released hostage would Likely be Brian Keenan an Irish teacher held hostage in Lebanon for four years. But no word has been heard from his kidnappers. The Tehran times which reflects the thinking of iranian president Hashemi rafts Anjani urged other Western Golem Menf to follow the French Lead and contribute to a the atmosphere of understanding and Mutual acts of Good  Quot the West German government for instance can make a humanitarian move by freeing the Hamadi Brothers held in prison for the past several years. Such moves can also facilitate the islamic republics humanitarian efforts to persuade the lebanese groups to free the  Mohammed Hamadi arrested at Frankfurt Airport in january 1987, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his part in a 1985 Twa hijacking. His brother Abbas is serving a 13-year sentence for involvement in the kidnapping of two West German businessmen in a 1987 attempt to Force the release of his brother. Both businessmen were later freed. The Hamadi Brothers Are members of the pro iranian Hezbollah or party of god an umbrella organization for most of the shiite moslem lebanese groups directed by Iran. Besides Keenan pro iranian shiite moslem groups in Lebanon hold six americans four britons two West germans two Swiss and an italian