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Local World War II hero dies

By Brad Kellar

Greenville – A local war hero has passed away out of state. Nolan Herndon was a former Greenville native and one of the last surviving members of the famed Doolittle Raiders, who bombed Tokyo in 1942.

Click above to listen as KETR's Greenville correspondent Brad Kellar reports.