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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