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Doolittle Raiders: Mission Completed

By Ned Forney
B-25 takes off from the USS Hornet for Tokyo, April 18, 1942.

Seventy-seven years ago today, one of the most storied and dangerous bombing missions of WWII began. The Doolittle Raiders, as the 80 men in the top-secret mission were called, were on their way to strike a blow at the heart of the Japanese empire: Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, as the first of 16 Army…

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