Jimmy Doolittle and his B-25B Mitchell prior to taking off from Yorktown-class aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) for the first American strike on Japan on April, 18, 1942. #History #WWII

@WW2Facts It was a great moral booster for the American people and a great embarrassment to Japans imperial high command, that even altered their war plans over it yet for the China’s civil population murdered in the thousands, for helping its raiders it was a disaster.

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