Bissell, Wayne Max, born 22-10-1921, in Walker, Minnesota, to Max Edward Bissell 
and his wife was Hilda L. Olson Bissell 
. Wayne had one older brother Lenard Marvin Bissell, born in 1918. 
He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps 
on 14-09-1939, and after completing enlisted bombardier training, he served as a B-25 Mitchell bombardier with the 34th Bomb Squadron of the 17th Bomb Group 
under command of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Raymond Peck at McChord Field, Washington, and then at Pendleton Army Airfield, Oregon, until he was selected for the Doolittle Mission in February 1942.
Wayne Max Bissell as an aviation cadet, first row (kneeling) left. Wayne Max, Bissell, a Vancouver High School 
football star and graduate, graduated during 1939, was a bombardier on aircraft 9 (Crew 9), 
, Wayne on the right, which bombed the Tokyo Gas and Electric Company. during the Doolittle raid. 
He married Boonie Ghormley Bissell during March 1948 in Vancouver, Washington. The couple had 5 children. Two daughters and 3 sons. The couple divorced during 1954. Wayne Max Bissell remarried with Juanita Delores Quinn.
Sergeant Wayne Bissell was the bombardier on the 9th B-25 to take off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) 
on 18-04-1942, and after bombing their assigned targets in Tokyo, Japan.
Wayne Max Bissell was captured by a group of Chinese soldiers after bailing out. The soldiers looked like a band of robbers. They were deserters from the Chinese nationalist army. He did not quite understand that he was a prisoner of them. Until he was in their company for a few days. After several days they left Wayne alone with 1 guard. Wayne managed to escape and fled to the next village. There he met his fellow crew members. There he was in the hands of Chinese guerrillas. These helped him and the others escape to free China. Sergeant Wayne Bissell came home on leave to Vancouver in July 1942. He attended many events and was honored as a hero during his time at home. The Vancouver Eagles Lodge had him as the principal speaker at its American War Heroes Day 
celebration. He had an East Coast assignment then went to flight school where he earned his commission on 28-07-1943. Lieutenant Bissell served in the Southwest Pacific until his discharge in July 1945.
In 1959 the city of Tucson, Arizon, presented the
James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle‘s Raiders 
with a set of silver goblets, each bearing the name of one of the 80 men who flew on the Doolittle Tokyo Raid in April 1942. Unfortunately, the jeweler who engraved the goblets made a few mistakes. Nine goblets have misspelled names, incorrect first names or middle initials, or incomplete names. Other minor typographical inconsistencies also exist, but nothing can detract from the significance of these goblets or the men who earned them. Nine goblets have misspelled names, incorrect first names or middle initials, or incomplete names. Wayne M. Bissell was also misspelled : Wayne N. Bissell.
Death and burial ground of Bissell, Wayne, Max.
Wayne Max Bissell died on 09-01-1997, age 75. in a Vancouver, Washington, nursing home. Wayne is buried at the Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. Section Z, Lot 1194.
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