File:Doolittle LtCol g41191.jpg
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English: LtCol James H. Doolittle, USAAF
Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942 Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (front), leader of the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan. The planes were launched on 18 April 1942. The wartime censor has obscured unit patches of the Air Force flight crew members in the background. |
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Official U.S. Navy Photograph (Photo #: 80-G-41191) retrieved from the Naval Historical Center Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Rcbutcher using CommonsHelper. Original uploader was ERcheck at en.wikipedia 23 May 2006 (original upload date) |
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