On April 18, 1942, a group of 16 U.S. bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, took off from the USS Hornet and raided Japan during World War II as retaliation for the attack on Pearl ...

On April 18, 1942, a group of 16 U.S. bombers, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and air-raided Japanese cities, including Tokyo, in ...

James “Jimmy” Doolittle ... that their odds of returning alive were less than fifty-fifty. Lt. Colonel Doolittle (fourth from right) and four fellow raiders pose with Chinese allies who ...

Col. James Doolittle, over Tokyo and several other Japanese cities. Advertisement In 1955, physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 76. In 1978, the Senate approved the ...

Gray was one of the 16 pilots selected for Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle’s raid over Tokyo on April 18, 1942. Six months later, Gray was killed in action on Oct. 18, 1942, when his B-25 bomber ...

Picture of exchange of artifacts The USS Hornet Museum proudly announces a significant international cultural exchange with the Doolittle R ...

File Photo by Monika Graff/UPI In 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a squadron of B-25 bombers in a surprise raid against Tokyo in response to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 ...

The stadium was demolished in 2010 after it was replaced a year prior by the new Yankee Stadium. In 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a squadron of B-25 bombers in a surprise raid against Tokyo in ...

File Photo by Monika Graff/UPI In 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a squadron of B-25 bombers in a surprise raid against Tokyo in response to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 ...

A little more than four months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a squad of B-25s that bombed Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya. Although the bombers did little ...