'These 80 men, dubbed the Doolittle Raiders, trained in secret, the daring pilots and their crews launched their B-25s off the flight deck of the USS Hornet, on what some said was an impossible mission. Flying at an altitude averaging just 200 feet above the ocean, all the raiders knew that they may not return. Low on fuel, Col. Jimmy Doolittle and his men thundered into the skies over Tokyo to take the fight to Japan.
The raid became stuff of legend “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” shook Imperial Japan to its core and is still considered one of history’s most momentous bomber raid.' |