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NH 53293 Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942

Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
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Title: Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
Description: View looking aft and to port from the island of USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the mission's launching point. USS Vincennes (CA-44) is in the distance. Several of the mission's sixteen B-25B bombers are visible. That in the foreground is tail # 40-2261, which was mission plane # 7, piloted by 2nd Lieutenant Ted W. Lawson. The next plane is tail # 40-2242, mission plane # 8, piloted by Captain Edward J. York. Both aircraft attacked targets in the Tokyo area. Lt. Lawson later wrote the book Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Note searchlight at left. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 53293
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