Colonel C Ross Greening

An art graduate, Ross Greening served as a B-25 pilot in the Northwest at the outbreak of WWII. In 1942, he participated in the famous Doolittle bombing raid on Japan and designed the special bomb-sight used during the mission. Fifteen months late Greening's plane was shot down over Italy's erupting Mt. Vesuvius, and he became a prisoner of war. He remained in the Air Force after the war and eventually became U.S. air attache to Australia and New Zealand. He died in 1957.