Not so accurate is the version of Doolittle s raid in the recent film, Pearl Harbor. Thatcher and other Doolitte survivors were flown to Hawaii to see the film s preview. It was pretty far fetched, he ...
In April 1942, sixteen B-25 bombers launched from the deck of USS Hornet — an act no one thought possible. The Doolittle Raid hit Tokyo months after Pearl Harbor, a daring gesture meant to restore ...
Some eight decades after 16 bombers left the U.S. for a brazen bombing raid on Tokyo following the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small piece of wreckage from the squadron that became known as the ...
Maj. Jimmie Doolittle, former champion speed pilot of the army, was in Chicago, superintending the completion of a mystery plane, he will fly in the national air races at Cleveland, Aug. 22, 1931. The ...