Photo #: NH 53425
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
USAAF B-25B bombers tied down on the flight deck of USS Hornet
(CV-8), while the carrier was en route to the mission's launching
point.
The plane in the center (second from the camera) is tail # 40-2283.
It was mission plane # 5, piloted by Captain David M. Jones,
which attacked targets in the Tokyo area.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53296
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
Army Air Forces B-25B bombers parked on the flight deck of USS
Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the mission's launching
point.
The plane in the upper right is tail # 40-2242, mission plane
# 8, piloted by Captain Edward J. York. Note use of the flight
deck tie-down strips to secure the aircraft. Location is near
the forward edge of the midships aircraft elevator.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53290
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
Two of the operation's sixteen USAAF B-25B bombers, parked on
the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to
the mission launching point.
The plane at right has tail # 40-2282. It is mission plane #
4, piloted by 2nd Lieutenant Everett W. Holstrom, Jr. during
the raid, in which it attacked targets in Tokyo. Note protective
cover over its gun turret, and wooden dummy guns mounted in its
tail cone.
The plane at left is warming up its engines, as was done periodically
during the voyage.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53293
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
View looking aft and to port from the island of USS Hornet
(CV-8), while en route to the mission's launching point. USS
Vincennes (CA-44) is in the distance.
Several of the mission's sixteen B-25B bombers are visible. That
in the foreground is tail # 40-2261, which was mission plane
# 7, piloted by 2nd Lieutenant Ted W. Lawson. The next plane
is tail # 40-2242, mission plane # 8, piloted by Captain Edward
J. York. Both aircraft attacked targets in the Tokyo area. Lt.
Lawson later wrote the book " Thirty Seconds over Tokyo".
Note searchlight at left.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53421
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
View looking aft from the island of USS Hornet (CV-8),
while en route to the mission's launching point. USS Nashville
(CL-43) is in the distance.
Eight of the mission's sixteen B-25B bombers are visible on the
carrier's flight deck. Aircraft at right is tail # 40-2250, which
was mission plane # 10, piloted by 2nd Lieutenant Richard O.
Joyce, which attacked targets in the Tokyo area.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53426
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
USAAF B-25B bombers tied down on the flight deck of USS Hornet
(CV-8), while the carrier was en route to the mission's launching
point. View looks aft from the rear of Hornet's island.
The plane in the foreground is tail # 40-2203 (mission plane
# 9). Partially visible at far right is tail # 40-2250 (mission
plane # 10). Piloted respectively by Second Lieutenants Harold
F. Watson and Richard O. Joyce, these B-25s attacked targets
in the Tokyo area.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53287
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
Nose of one of the raiding force's B-25B bombers, which is tied
down on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8) while en
route to the takeoff point.
This aircraft is mission plane # 11 (USAAF serial # 40-2249),
nicknamed "Hari Carrier" and decorated accordingly.
The plane's pilot was Capt. C. Ross Greening. It attacked targets
in Yokohama.
Note slippage mark on the nosewheel and tire, and inscription
on the wheel cover: "Inflating instructions inside -- check
tire pressure daily".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 97501
Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942
Nose art on B-25B "Hari Carrier" (USAAF serial # 40-2249),
photographed while the plane was parked on board USS Hornet
(CV-8), en route to the raid launching point.
This aircraft was mission plane # 11, piloted by Captain C. Ross
Greening. It attacked targets in the Yokohama area on 18 April
1942.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 53291
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
Crewmen work on a USAAF B-25B parked at the rear of USS Hornet's
(CV-8) flight deck, while en route to the mission's launching
point.
USS Gwin (DD-433) is in the center, approaching the carrier
from astern.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53295
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
Some of the mission's B-25B bombers parked on the flight deck
of USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the raid's takeoff
point.
Note use of the flight deck tie-down strips to secure the aircraft.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53422
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
USAAF B-25B bombers and Navy F4F-3 fighters on the flight deck
of USS Hornet (CV-8), while she was en route to the mission's
launching point.
Note wooden dummy machine guns in the tail cone of the B-25 at
left.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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