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Photo #: NH 102457

Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF


Wires a Japanese medal to a bomb, for "return" to its originators in the first U.S. air raid on the Japanese Home Islands, April 1942.
Photographed on board USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before LtCol. Doolittle's B-25 bombers were launched to attack Japan.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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7 January 2002