Lt.-Colonel Jimmy Doolittle on the deck of the Hornet

Lieut-Colonel Jimmy Doolittle attaching a Japanese medal to the fin of a 500-lb. bomb on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet in April 1942. On the 18th of that month Doolittle led 16 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers in an attack on Tokyo - the first American attack on Japan during the Second World War

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