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  2. Doolittle Raid - Wikipedia

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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 Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. Although the raid caused comparatively minor damage, it ...

  3. Jimmy Doolittle - Wikipedia

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    James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. [1]

  4. Air raids on Japan - Wikipedia

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    The charred remains of a woman who was carrying a child on her back, Tokyo 1945. The atomic bomb attacks have been the subject of long-running controversy. While conventional attacks inflicted more damage and casualties on Japan than the atomic bombs, discussions of the air campaign have been focused on the use of nuclear weapons. [318]

  5. Doolittle announced to his 16 5-man B-25 crews that they would be bombing Japan. Weather conditions in the Pacific forced the airmen to launch farther out from Japan than planned.

  6. Bombing of Tokyo - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. mounted the Doolittle Raid, a seaborne, small-scale air raid on Tokyo in April 1942. Strategic bombing and urban area bombing began in 1944 after the long-range B-29 Superfortress bomber entered service, first deployed from China and thereafter the Mariana Islands .

  7. Enemy Airmen's Act - Wikipedia

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    The first victims to be put on trial under the act were the Doolittle raiders captured by the Japanese in China in April 1942. They were put on trial on 28 August in Tokyo and charged with allegedly strafing Japanese civilians during the 18 April raid. However, the Japanese did not produce any evidence against them.

  8. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Wikipedia

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    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the 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 the December 7, 1941, Japanese ...

  9. Richard E. Cole - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, he was one of the airmen who took part in the 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 sixteen B-25 bombers, which for the first time took off from an aircraft carrier on a bombing mission.