(Img: U.S. Navy/National Archives) Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, eighty men volunteered for the first air raid against Japan. On April 18, 1942 the airmen took off from the USS Hornet in what would become known as the Doolittle Raid. The veterans of this raid are still honored as American heroes today.
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