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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97501

Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942


Nose art on B-25B "Hari Carrier" (USAAF serial # 40-2249), photographed while the plane was parked on board USS Hornet (CV-8), en route to the raid launching point.
This aircraft was mission plane # 11, piloted by Captain C. Ross Greening. It attacked targets in the Yokohama area on 18 April 1942.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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28 February 2001