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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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  • 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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    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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