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USA / Japan / China: Four unidentified Doolittle Raid crewmen, who bailed out over China from Aircraft no. 14, are escorted through a Chinese town before being reunited with other airmen, April 1942

The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on 18 April 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and provided an important boost to U.S. morale while damaging Japanese morale. The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.<br/><br/>. Sixteen U.S. Army Air Forces B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched without fighter escort from the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet deep in the Western Pacific Ocean, each with a crew of five men. The plan called for them to bomb military targets in Japan, and to continue westward to land in Chinalanding a medium bomber on Hornet was impossible. Fifteen of the aircraft reached China, and the other one landed in the Soviet Union. All but three of the crew survived, but all the aircraft were lost. Eight crewmen were captured by the Japanese Army in China; three of these were executed.

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Titre: USA / Japan / China: Four unidentified Doolittle Raid crewmen, who bailed out over China from Aircraft no. 14, are escorted through a Chinese town before being reunited with other airmen, April 1942

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The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on 18 April 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and provided an important boost to U.S. morale while damaging Japanese morale. The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.

. Sixteen U.S. Army Air Forces B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched without fighter escort from the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet deep in the Western Pacific Ocean, each with a crew of five men. The plan called for them to bomb military targets in Japan, and to continue westward to land in Chinalanding a medium bomber on Hornet was impossible. Fifteen of the aircraft reached China, and the other one landed in the Soviet Union. All but three of the crew survived, but all the aircraft were lost. Eight crewmen were captured by the Japanese Army in China; three of these were executed.

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Mots clés: 1939-1945 • AMÉRCAIN • AMERICAIN (ETATS-UNIS) • AMERICAIN (USA) • AMÉRICAIN • AMÉRICAINE • AMÉRICIAN • AMÉRICIANE • ASIE • ASIE, CONTINENT • CHINE • CHINOIS • CHINOISE • CONTINENT ASIE • DEUXIEME GUERRE MONDIALE • ÉTAS UNIS • ÉTAS-UNIS • ETATS UNIS • ETATS-UNIS • GUERRE MONDIALE II • JAMES DOOLITTLE • JAPON • JAPONAIS • JAPONAISE • ORNEMENT, JAPONAIS • SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE • TOKIO • TOKYO • U. S. A. • ŽTATS-UNIS