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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53424

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.
Ammunition box in center is marked "A.P. M2, Incndy. M1, Trcr. M1", indicating the ammunition types inside: armor piercing, incendiary and tracer.
Note wooden flight deck planking, with metal aircraft tiedown strips in place of every eighth plank.

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23 February 2001