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Usaf - Tokyo Raid - On 18 April 1942, Airmen Of The Us Army Air

93020 USAF - TOKYO RAID -- On 18 April 1942, airmen of the US 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 US 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. With heavy seas and overcast sky, a B-25 bomber takes-off from the USS Hornet on the last leg of its journey to Japan.