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On 18 April 1942, Airmen Of The U.S
1942-04-18
April 1942, airmen of the U.S. Army Air Forces, led by Lt Col James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, carried the Battle of the Pacific to the heart of the Japanese empire with a surprising and daring raid on military targets at Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya and Kobe. This heroic attack against these major cities was the result of co-ordination between the Army Air Forces and the U.S. Navy, which carried the sixteen North American B-25 medium bombers aboard the carrier USS Hornet to within take-off distances of the Japanese Islands. Dwarfed by the B-25 bomber, Navy fighters rest with wings folded on the edge of the Hornet flight deck.
