The Doolittle Raid: The Full Story of America’s First Strike on Japan
At 08:20 on the morning of 18 April 1942, Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle sat in the cockpit of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber at the forward end of the USS Hornet’s flight deck, engines run up against the brakes, the carrier’s bow rising and plunging through a grey North Pacific gale. Behind him, packed… Read article