Keywords: Doolittle LtCol g41191.jpg LtCol James H Doolittle USAAF Doolittle Raid on Japan April 1942 Lieutenant Colonel James H Doolittle USAAF front leader of the raiding force wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet CV-8 shortly before his force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan The planes were launched on 18 April 1942 The wartime censor has obscured unit patches of the Air Force flight crew members in the background Official U S Navy Photograph Photo http //www history navy mil/photos/images/g40000/g41191 jpg 80-G-41191 retrieved from the Naval Historical Center <br>Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User Rcbutcher using http //tools wikimedia de/~magnus/commonshelper php CommonsHelper Original uploader was ERcheck at http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia 2006 05 23 original upload date 1942-04 US Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Original upload log page en wikipedia Doolittle_LtCol_g41191 jpg 2006-05-23 05 20 ERcheck 740×605× 110853 bytes <nowiki>LtCol James H Doolittle USN Doolittle Raid on Japan April 1942 Lieutenant Colonel James H Doolittle USAAF front leader of the raiding force wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet CV-8 s</nowiki> James Harold Doolittle Doolittle Raid Aboard USS Hornet CV-8 |