In January 1942, Captain Francis Low, upon seeing the newly completed USS Hornet CV-8 ... Colonel Jimmy Doolittle was selected to plan the details of the raid and would eventually lead it.

On the 75th anniversary of what came to be known as The Doolittle Raid ... Two B-25s were loaded aboard the carrier USS Hornet on February 3, 1942, and they successfully made it off the deck.

Explosions, flames and fireballs dotted the landscape, but it was now time for the brave and triumphant Doolittle Raiders ... would finish it! The USS Hornet, who delivered the B-25’s to the ...

David J. Thatcher, presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to be housed in the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders B-25 exhibit. “Seventy-three years ago today ...