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

1942-04-18

92993 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. Here, Brig. Gen. James (Jimmy) H. Doolittle fastens medals (previously given to US Naval officers by Japan) to tail-fins of a bomb for return to Japan "with interest."

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