The Story of Erich Braemer

One of the people Karl met on the train to Ft. Lincoln was a man from Seattle named Erich Braemer. Erich, as were all of the men on the train, was still in shock from his sudden arrest by the F.B.I. "I even have a son in the Army Air Corps," he exclaimed. As it turned out, Erich was not kept at Ft. Lincoln very long. After he arrived back home, he sent some of his new friends several articles from the SEATTLE TIMES and other area newspapers. The recurring theme of the articles was "we are proud of the Braemers". Erich's son, Fred, was the bombardier on the lead airplane, piloted by Jimmy Doolittle himself, on the incredible and dangerous raid over Tokyo during April of 1942.