Two missions a tale of
by Angelle Albright
The modified B-25 bombers used in the Doolittle Raid had less defensive armament and additional fuel tanks in order to make their mission possible. 42
A LESSER-KNOWN EVENT in World War II intersected the lives of two New Orleanians in a most unlikely place after the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. Mechanic Robert Bourgeois enlisted in the war, as many from the “Greatest Generation” did. Sr. Celina Seghers was a missionary of the Daughters of Charity. Their chance meeting made both of them heroes as their lives collided in a moment in history that would be inconceivable even by Hollywood standards. The setting for their meeting was a Vincentian
Inside Northside
mission church in the eastern province of China, a desolate place, pinpointed on U.S. military maps as the location now known for the brutal Japanese ZhejiangJiangxi Campaign. After Katrina, my father handed me a manila folder filled with newspaper articles and archival papers that documented the journey of his greataunt Celina’s selfless acts that played a role in a horrific genocide that the world knows little about. I knew I was holding on to a piece of history that had to be told. With 2017 being the
