82 years ago today Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle led the audacious first U.S. airstrike on mainland Japan from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in what became known as the “Doolittle Raid”. In ...

April 18, marks the 82nd anniversary of the famed Doolittle Raiders attack in and around Tokyo. Of the 80 B-25 bomber airmen who flew off of the USS Hornet, 13 were Texans. No other state had as many ...

On April 18, 1942, in response to the Japanese attack the previous December on Pearl Harbor, 80 men in 16 B-25 bombers took off on a secret mission to bomb Japan. Led by James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle, ...

It remains today one of the most daring missions ever of World War II. The bombing of the Japanese home islands on Saturday, April 18, 1942, by 16 B-25 medium bombers helped the morale of U.S.

Chase J. Nielsen, 90, a member of the "Doolittle Raiders" who bombed Japan in 1942, died March 23 at his home in Brigham City, Utah. No cause of death was reported. Col. Nielsen was a navigator in one ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: James H. Doolittle was a Lieutenant General for Air Forces in the U.S. Army with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1960 Vignette. “The General ...

The last veteran of a World War II bombing raid on Japan died Tuesday at age 103 in San Antonio. Richard Cole was part of the Doolittle raid —... World War II Veteran Richard Cole, Of Doolittle Raid, ...

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SAN ANTONIO - A 98-year-old retired U.S. Air Force pilot who's among just four surviving Doolittle Raiders will mark the anniversary of the war-changing flights at a ceremony in Texas. Officials with ...