“It was like riding a see-saw,” Doolittle said. News of the daring air raid made front-page headlines and boosted American morale less than five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Just months after Pearl Harbor, America launched one of the most audacious missions of WWII - the Doolittle Raid. Sixteen B-25 bombers took off from the USS Hornet, led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, in ...

On April 18, 1942, a group of 16 U.S. bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and air-raided Japanese cities, including Tokyo, in retaliation ...

Guests visit the site where the U.S. airmen of the Doolittle Raid were rescued by locals in Quzhou City, east China's ...

a convoy of 22 Army Air Corps B-25s completed their cross-country flight to McClellan Air Depot for final preparation of what would become the Doolittle Raid. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor ...

four months after Pearl Harbor, we were over there dropping bombs." Says Williamson Murray, a senior fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses outside Washington, D.C., "The Doolittle Raid ...

This is the former resting place of Leland Faktor, a U.S. engineer and gunner who participated in the Doolittle Raid ... for the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the raid, 15 planes heading for ...

People visit a photo exhibition commemorating the Flying Tigers and Doolittle Raiders, Americans who fought Japan in World ...

The amazingly-detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory ...