White, Thomas Robert “Doc”, born 29-03-1909 in Haiku, 
Hawai, to Clarence Greenleaf White and his mother, Florence Rumley, born White (Fisk). The couple had 4 children, three daughters and one son. Thomas was home schooled until the family moved to California, where he enrolled in and graduated from Redlands High School, Redlands, California in 1927. He then went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a BS degree. White took on post graduate work at Harvard University 
and also at the University of Southern California. He was awarded his M.D. degree at Harvard Medical School in 1937 and went on to Johns Hopkins for his post graduate training, interning in Baltimore and Honolulu.
White was commissioned a 2d Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces 
on 14-08-1941, and after completing Aviation Medical School at Randolph Army Airfield, Texas, 
he served as a Flight Surgeon with the 17th Bomb Group 
under command of General Walter Raymond Peck 
at Pendleton Army Airfield, Oregon, until he was selected for the Doolittle Mission in February 1942. Lieutenant “Doc” White was the gunner aboard the 15th B-25, Crew 15 of the Doolittle Raiders, left to right-Lt. Howard A. Sessler, Lt. Donald G. Smith, Lt. Thomas R. White, Lt. Griffith P. Williams, Sgt. Edward J. Saylor.
“Doc” White prepared the 16 Doolittle crews and the crew who trained with them with numerous vaccines. He also gave lectures to the crews on hygiene and sanitation while in primitive conditions.
However, during the flight Dr. Thomas Robert White was the gunner in crew 15. He was trained for that during the training seesions at Eglin, Florida.
After take off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) 
on 18-04-1942, and after bombing its assigned targets in Kobe, Japan, the crew ditched their aircraft in the water off the coast of China.
Medical kits were prepared and assembled for each plane, and “Doc” assembled a small surgical kit for himself, having to bear in mind the severe weight considerations. He also put together personal medical kits for each of the individual crewmembers, containing a dose of morphine, field dressing and sulfanilamide tablets in case of wounds sustained, as well as 60 grains of quinine for protection against malaria, tincture of iodine,caffeine tablets to help the crews stay alert for the long haul to China, and last, but not least, a pint of whiskey.
Proceeded to Kobe, Japan and bombed the main industrial area, an aircraft factory, dock yards and yards in the north part of the Bay with 4 incendiary clusters, proceeded to China.
When the crew swam safely to the shore on the Tantou Mountain Island, 
they found that gunner(and surgeon) Thomas “Doc” White was left nowhere. It turned out that White was looking for his “treasures, a surgical instrument box and a case full of medicine. White failed to find his medicine box, though; he got back his surgical instrument box in the sea.
Death and burial ground of White, Thomas Robert “Doc”.
After returning to the United States, Major White served as a Flight Surgeon with bomber units in England, North Africa, and Italy before leaving active duty on 22-11-1945.
After the war, he practiced medicine in Hawaii and later in California, where he died in 1992.
Pilot of crew 07 (“The Ruptured Duck” plane”) – Ted William “Theodore” Lawson 
a part of his leg was amputeted in China by Dr. Thomas Robert “Doc” White.
Robert White passed away on 29-11-1992, age 83, in California and was buried at the Hillside Cemetery in Redlands, California. a historic, city-owned public cemetery located at 1540 Alessandro Road.
