Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and ...

Join CJCS Caine and CSAF Wilsbach for AFA’s Worldwide Toast to the Doolittle Raiders . The Air & Space Forces Association is p ...

Some eight decades after 16 bombers left the U.S. for a brazen bombing raid on Tokyo following the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small piece of wreckage from the squadron that became known as the ...

Eighty years ago this week, a team of B-25s bombers, manned by 80 volunteer airmen, embarked on a secret and “very hazardous” mission, dropping the first bombs over Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Military servicemen stand aboard the deck of the USS Hornet. As a patriotic American, over the next several years, you should ...

EGLIN AFB — In south Okaloosa County, the last days of February and a good number of days of March in 1942 were foggy, with considerable rain and inclement weather. An Army Air Corps officer took ...

82 years ago today Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle led the audacious first U.S. airstrike on mainland Japan from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in what became known as the “Doolittle Raid”. In ...

Saylor, who was in La Vista for the event, was an engineer on the crew of the 15th plane of the Doolittle Raiders, who were part of a 16-plane mission of B-25s led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle to bomb ...

It remains today one of the most daring missions ever of World War II. The bombing of the Japanese home islands on Saturday, April 18, 1942, by 16 B-25 medium bombers helped the morale of U.S.

On April 18, 1942, in response to the Japanese attack the previous December on Pearl Harbor, 80 men in 16 B-25 bombers took off on a secret mission to bomb Japan. Led by James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle, ...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla.—Eighty years ago, on April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25B Mitchell bombers heavy with fuel, munitions, and little else launched off the flight deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Airman Edward Saylor didn't expect to come back alive when his B-25 set off for the first U.S. bomb attack on Japan during World War II. Saylor and the other 79 "Doolittle's Raiders" ...