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Bound for Tokyo, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle launches
his B-25 Mitchell from the heaving deck of the carrier USS Hornet
on the morning of 18 April, 1942. Leading a sixteen-bomber force
on their long distance one - way mission, the Doolittle Raiders
completed the first strike at the heart of Imperial Japan since
the infamous attack on Pearl Harbour four months earlier. Together,
they completed one of the most audacious air raids in aviation
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