DOOLITTLE RAID PAYBACK FOR PEARL HARBOR
Aboard the USS Hornet • April 18, 1942 The Doolittle Raid—a top-secret U.S. retaliatory airstrike following the surprise Japanese bombing of American naval and air bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 19 weeks earlier—was the country’s first joint action with the U.S. Army Air Forces and the U.S. Navy. The groundbreaking mission shipped 16 North American B‑25B Mitchell…