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18 April 1942
Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 11:50AM Lt Col Jimmy Doolittle provides America with a huge morale boost when he leads an air raid on Tokyo, with 16 Mitchell bombers launching from US aircraft carrier USS Hornet in West Pacific, bombing Tokyo and landing in China.
13 of the 16 crews make it home, one plane lands in Soviet union where crew is interned for a year. Another crew is captured by Japs and three members are executed.
Doolittle is subsequently promoted to General and awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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