Aboard USS Hornet
On 18 April 1942, airmen of the US Army Air Forces, led by Lt.
Col. James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, carried the battle of the Pacific
to the heart of the Japanese empire with a surprising and daring
raid on military targets at Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya,
and Kobe. This historic attack against these major cities was
the result of coordination between the Army Air Forces and the
US Navy, which carried the sixteen North American B-25 medium
bombers aboard the carrier USS Hornet to within take-off distances
of the Japanese Islands.
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