DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
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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