Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor (108 page)

Sailors throughout the task force cheered as each bomber lifted off from the
Hornet
’s flight deck.
(NATIONAL ARCHIVES)

This photograph of the Yokosuka naval base, shot from one of the bombers, is one of the few images of the raid to have survived.
(NATIONAL ARCHIVES)

A Japanese official stands in a crater more than six feet deep and almost forty-three feet wide, surrounded by the debris of a destroyed wooden factory building in the Tokyo area. The attack by pilot Dean Hallmark not only leveled the structure but also blew out the windows of the adjacent building.  
(NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE STUDIES)

This bomb crater near an Asahi Electrical Manufacturing Corporation factory in the Tokyo area measured more than fifteen feet wide and almost ten feet deep. 
(NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE STUDIES)

The attack led by pilot Travis Hoover, in the second bomber to leave the
Hornet
, destroyed this Tokyo-area home, killing one person.
(NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE STUDIES)

Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, pictured here with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, struggled with his disdain for the Chinese leader.
(NATIONAL ARCHIVES)

Local Chinese survey the wreckage of Doolittle’s B-25 after the raid on Japan.
(NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE U.S. AIR FORCE)

Locals carry some of the raiders in sedan chairs, one of the many forms of native transportation the airmen depended on in China, including rickshaws and miniature ponies.
(NATIONAL ARCHIVES)

Chinese soldiers escorting the crew of the fifteenth bomber, including,
from left
, Herb Macia, Jack Sims, Jacob Eierman, and Jack Hilger.
(NATIONAL ARCHIVES)

Pilot Ted Lawson was badly injured in the crash of the
Ruptured Duck
in the surf along the Chinese coast, leading to the amputation of his left leg by mission doctor Thomas White.
(AIR FORCE HISTORICAL RESEARCH AGENCY)

Jimmy Doolittle and his second-in-command, Major Jack Hilger, listen to Madame Chiang Kai-shek after she presented them with medals in Chungking following the raid on Japan.
(NATIONAL ARCHIVES)

President Franklin Roosevelt presents Jimmy Doolittle with the Medal of Honor at the White House on May 19, 1942, as Lieutenant General Henry Arnold, Joe Doolittle, and General George Marshall watch.
(NATIONAL ARCHIVES)