DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 53422
Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942
USAAF B-25B bombers and Navy F4F-3 fighters on the flight deck
of USS Hornet (CV-8), while she was en route to the mission's
launching point.
Note wooden dummy machine guns in the tail cone of the B-25 at
left.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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