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Doolittle Raiders Homecoming
Three B-25 Mitchells fly over Duke Field's flight line during the Doolittle Raiders Homecoming re-enactment May 31. The Doolittle Raid, planned by Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolittle, was the first air raid by the United States to strike Japan in World War II and was carried out in retaliation for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. Sixteen B-5 Mitchells took off from an aircraft carrier, a first for the airframe, and bombed military targets in Japan. All 16 aircraft were lost when their crews had to ditch or bail out over China when they ran out of fuel. There are only 11 out of 80 original crewmembers alive today. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class James P. Brock III)
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