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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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23 February 2001