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Photo #: NH 53423

Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942


USAAF aircrewmen preparing .50 caliber machine gun ammunition on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), while the carrier was steaming toward the mission's launching point.
Three of their B-25B bombers are visible. That in the upper left is tail #s 40-2298, mission plane # 6, piloted by Lieutenant Dean E. Hallmark. That in top center is tail # 40-2283. It was mission plane # 5, piloted by Captain David M. Jones. Both attacked targets in the Tokyo area.
Lt. Hallmark, captured by the Japanese in China, was executed by them at Shanghai on 15 October 1942.
Note the open flight deck bomb elevator in the upper right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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23 February 2001