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Description 208-PU-53A-2: Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 18, 1942. Somewhere in China. After a crash landing, Major General Jimmy Doolittle sits on the wing of a B-25 bomber in which he led the raid on Tokyo a year ago. Doolittle was the first to take off from USS Hornet (CV-8). He was one of the fortunate pilots who were located by friendly Chinese, released April 22, 1943. Office of War Information Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/05/02).
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