Photographs from the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
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Army Air Force B-25B bombers prepare to take off from the USS Hornet (CV-8), on the morning of April 18, 1942. These are the last five or six planes to be launched.
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Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle (left front), leader of the attacking force, and Captain Marc A. Mitscher, Commanding Officer of the USS Hornet (CV-8), pose with a 500-pound bomb and Army Air Force aircrew members during ceremonies on the Hornet.
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USS Nashville (CL-43) firing her 6""/47 main battery guns at a Japanese picket boat encountered by the raid task force, April 18, 1942. Photographed from the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25).
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Nose art on the B-25B ""Hari Carrier"" (Serial no. 40-2249), photographed while the plane was parked on board USS Hornet (CV-8), en route to the raid launching point.
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Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, Army Air Force, (center) with members of his flight crew and Chinese officials in China after the April 18, 1942 attack on Japan.
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