B-25 pilot Edgar McElroy flew the #13 aircraft on the Doolittle Raid and recounted the several thousand-mile flight from Eglin to Sacramento in a letter that is now kept at the Pearl Harbor ...

“It was like riding a see-saw,” Doolittle said. News of the daring air raid made front-page headlines and boosted American morale less than five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbo ...

On April 18, 1942, a small group of Army Air Forces aviators changed the momentum of World War II with a single, audacious ...

Just months after Pearl Harbor, America launched one of the most audacious missions of WWII - the Doolittle Raid. Sixteen B-25 ... It was the first time U.S. aircraft had bombed Tokyo, sending ...

Doolittle, the Raiders performed one of the ... because the Japanese mistook the B-25s for their own planes on an air raid exercise. Whatever the reason, not one of the American planes was shot ...

In return, the Doolittle Raid Memorial Hall will present the museum with a powerful artifact: a fragment from aircraft No. 9, Whirling Dervish—one of the sixteen B-25 bombers launched from the ...

April 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) invites Airmen, Guardians, Veterans, and supporters worldwide to join us for our AFA Grand Opening and Doolittle Raiders ...

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 ...