On April 2, 1942, the carrier U.S.S. Hornet slipped out of San Francisco Bay with 16 bombers lashed to its flight deck ... Onboard the ship, Doolittle’s Raiders, as the fliers came to be ...

Following the daring and successful Doolittle Raid on Tokyo during World War 2, 16 American B-25 bombers continued on with perhaps the most dangerous portion of their flight. Having launched from ...

In his flight jacket with 17th ... the last surviving Doolittle Raider, who passed away yesterday at 103. When we covered a reunion of the Raiders in 2011, Cole recalled the historic April 1942 ...

Among the stories from this time, the Chinese people's heroic rescue of U.S. airmen after the Doolittle Raid on Japan has united ... However, due to the increased flight range, the 15 planes ...

was flown on a ceremonial B-25 flight, in the care of Brian “Bear” Anderson, the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association sergeant at arms, and landed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ...

I stood there in the spring rain with friends from across the Pacific to commemorate the Chinese people's heroic rescue of Americans after the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan. We mourned in silence ...

Unsettled History: America, China, and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire ...