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On April 18, 1942, a small group of Army Air Forces aviators changed the momentum of World War II with a single, audacious strike. Known as the Doolittle Raid, this operation — launched from the deck of the USS Hornet — was the first U.S. air attack on Japan’s home islands.
Army Air Corps Lt. Col. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, left, with the skipper of the USS Hornet, Capt. Marc A. Mitscher.
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