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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