Oklahoma Air Force planes return home after evacuation to Sacramento B-25 pilot Edgar McElroy flew the #13 aircraft on the Doolittle Raid and recounted the several thousand-mile flight from Eglin ...
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - Thursday marked the 82nd anniversary of the Doolittle Raid of World War II. On April 18, 1942, the United States carried out an air strike on Tokyo, Japan in response to ...
The B-25 Mitchell will always be remembered as the aircraft flown by the Doolittle Raiders, and this excerpt shows how the American Airpower Museum paid tribute to that famous group of pilots.
The "Raider" name was submitted by airmen with the 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, according to CNN. The moniker refers to the 1942 Doolittle Raid in which 80 ...
David J. Thatcher, presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to be housed in the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders B-25 exhibit. “Seventy-three years ago today ...
Players: Allies: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris's RAF Bomber Command; General James Doolittle's 8th US Army ... Six out of 800 bombers were lost in the raid. As at Hamburg in 1943, the ...
Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...
To that end, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do ...