Veterans pay respects to late Lt. Col Nielsen

Veterans from Veterans of Foreign War Post 1695, Post 8307 and active duty military members pay their final respects at Lt. Colonel Chase J. Nielsen memorial service in Hyrum, Utah March 28. Colonel Nielsen was one of the few remaining members of the famed Doolittle Raiders. The members of the Doolittle Raiders reached national acclaim in 1942 after launching the first successful aerial bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan as retaliation for the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December of 1941. (U.S. Air Force photo/Efrain Gonzalez)