Last week marked the death of a great, if largely forgotten, American. Robert Hite was a co-pilot in the legendary Doolittle’s bombing raid over Tokyo in the midst of World War II. Doolittle’s Raiders shattered the idea that Japan was invulnerable and changed the psychology of the war. Hite’s oral history has been preserved by the Air Force Historical Research Agency. Its director, Charles O’Connell, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more of what the agency does.

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