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    The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital...
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    Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid...
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    Richard E. Cole (category Doolittle Raiders)
    Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 1942. He served as the co-pilot to Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle in the lead airplane of the raid by...
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    limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in...
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    estimated 70,000 to 150,000 people. The U.S. mounted the Doolittle Raid, a seaborne, small-scale air raid on Tokyo in April 1942. Strategic bombing and urban...
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  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (category Films about the Doolittle Raid)
    same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson. Lawson was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid, America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after...
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    Ted W. Lawson (category Doolittle Raiders)
    of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a memoir of his participation in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. The book was subsequently adapted into the 1944 film...
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    USS Hornet (CV-8) (category Doolittle Raid)
    Theater, she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid. In the Solomon Islands campaign...
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  • Doolittle Raid were 50 killed and over 400 wounded and about 200 houses were destroyed. The Japanese were embarrassed by the impact of the Doolittle Raid...
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    escorting Hornet on the mission to launch 16 Army B-25 Mitchells in the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo. While fighters from Enterprise flew combat air patrol, the...
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    David M. Jones (category Doolittle Raiders)
    medium bomber. In early 1942, Jones volunteered for the Doolittle Project – a secret bombing raid to be launched on Japan in retaliation for the December...
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  • Pearl Harbor (film) (category Films about the Doolittle Raid)
    story set amidst the lead up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid. The film was a box office success, grossing $59 million in its opening...
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  • The Chinese Widow (category Films about the Doolittle Raid)
    Lost Soldier. Nominated - Golden Goblet Award for Best Feature Film Doolittle Raid Pearl Harbor (film) "Liu Yifei stars in The Chinese Widow for Zhejiang...
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    Jacob DeShazer (category Doolittle Raiders)
    Daniel DeShazer (15 November 1912 – 15 March 2008) participated in the Doolittle Raid as a staff sergeant and later became a Christian missionary in Japan...
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    Chase Nielsen (category Doolittle Raiders)
    Force. He participated in the Doolittle Raid in 1942 and was one of the four surviving prisoners of war from that raid. Born in Hyrum, Utah to Floyd Nielsen...
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  • be constructed in Oakland, California Doolittle Raid, a World War II bombing raid on Tokyo led by Jimmy Doolittle Dolittle (disambiguation) Doctor Dolittle...
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    William John Dieter (category Doolittle Raiders)
    plane to take off from a US carrier as part of the Doolittle Raid, a bold long-range retaliatory air raid on the Japanese main islands, on April 18, 1942...
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    the Doolittle Raid occurred in April 1942, where 16 bombers took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, 600 miles (970 km) from Japan. The raid inflicted...
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    the island hopping campaign in the Central Pacific, as well as in the Doolittle Raid. The aircraft's potential as a ground-attack aircraft emerged during...
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    flight deck and climbed unsteadily into the leaden gray skies. Although the raid inflicted only minimal materiel damage upon the Japanese homeland, it nevertheless...
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    Denver V. Truelove (category Doolittle Raiders)
    World War II. He was one of the eighty Doolittle Raiders who bombed Japan in April 1942. After the Doolittle Raid, Truelove was involved briefly in North...
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    Robert J. Meder (category Doolittle Raiders)
    Army Air Forces who participated in the Doolittle Raid. In February 1942, he volunteered to participate in the raid, which took place on April 18 that year...
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    serving six years. On April 18, 1942, the United States launched the Doolittle Raid, an attack by 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet...
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    bombers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, USAAF, for the Doolittle Raid on Japan. On 13 April, they rendezvoused with other US...
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    The Group's aircraft and many of its aircrews took part in the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Imperial Japan. During World War II the 17th Bomb Group was the only...
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  • distinct units and do not share a lineage. Marshall Islands Raid, February 1942 Doolittle Raid, May 1942 Battle of Midway, June 1942 Off Guadalcanal, December...
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    William G. Farrow (category Doolittle Raiders)
    Army Air Forces who participated in the Doolittle Raid. In February 1942, he volunteered to participate in the raid, which took place on April 18 that year...
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    the rest of Task Force 18 (TF18), in April the force conducted the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. In May Halsey was ordered to join Task Force 17 (TF17) in...
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  • Destination Tokyo (category Films about the Doolittle Raid)
    to Tokyo Bay to obtain vital weather intelligence for the upcoming Doolittle Raid. After picking up Raymond, the Copperfin is attacked by two Japanese...
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    Tom Griffin (aviator) (category Doolittle Raiders)
    eighty Doolittle Raiders who bombed Japan in April 1942. After the Doolittle Raid, he was relocated to North Africa and was shot down during an air raid in...
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