Tom Griffin
Griffin was born July 10, 1917, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He graduated from the university of Alabama in 1939. He entered military service July 5, 1939, as a 2nd Lieutenant, coast artillery, by requested relief from active duty in 1940 to enlist as an aviation cadet. He was trained as a navigator and recommissioned in July 1, 1940.

Griffin was the navigator for Number 9 of the famed Doolittle Radiers. After the Tokyo Raid, he returned to battle, this time in the Mediterranean theater. On July 3, 1943, he was shot down over Sicily and captured by the German Army. He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.