VFW Post-10212 Salutes Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle And The Doolittle Raiders 75th Anniversary Of The Bombing Raid On Tokyo, Japan 18th April 1942

Sixteen (16) North American B-26B 

Mitchell Medium Bombers On the Deck of The 

U.S. Navy Carrier U.S.S. Hornet CV-8

U.S. Army Air Corp. Lt.Col. Jimmy Doolittle 

With His Lead Aircraft B-26B Crew

Photo credit: VFW Post-10212 Historian
VFW Post 10212 Member And Blog Author 

Celebrates 18th April, The 75th Anniversary 

Of The Doolittle Raid With A Good Cigar To 

Honor Those Who Came Before Us 

VFW Post-10212 Post Historian Call: 75 years ago, the Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, took place on Saturday, April 18th 1942, was an air raid by the United States of America on the Japanese capital of Tokyo and others sites on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air strike to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7th 1941 and provided an important boost to American morale. The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle of the the United States Army Air Force.
U.S. Strength:
16 ea. North American B-25B's Mitchel medium bombers
80 ea. airmen (52 officers, 28 enlisted)
  2 ea. aircraft carriers
  4 ea. cruisers
  8 ea. destroyers