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 ...

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 ...

On April 18, 1942, a group of 16 U.S. bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle ... in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ahead of the raid, bombers took off at a location ...

Led by Lt. Col. James“Jimmy” Doolittle, the 1942 raid marked the first U.S. air strike against the Japanese homeland following Pearl Harbor. Sixteen B-25B Mitchell bombers, each with a five ...

The society donated the wreckage of a B-25 bomber from the raid ... Doolittle, took off from the USS Hornet and raided Japan during World War II as retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor.