AN EPIC DEED IN AMERICAN HISTORY

The Doolittle raid

SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, APRIL 18, 1942

By Spencer Warren
Sixty-five years ago today, eighty American flyers, led by Lt. Colonel James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle, staged our first bombing attack on Japan.

Only four months after Pearl Harbor, at a time when Imperial Japan was on the march in China, the Philippines, the western Pacific and southwest Pacific toward Australia, through the Dutch East Indies and Singapore, Malaya, Thailand and Burma, when the Nazi Panzers were striking deeper and deeper into Soviet Russia and Rommel was pushing back the British in Libya toward the Suez Canal, these brave young (AMERICAN - ed) men struck the first offensive blow that inspired America, and free peoples everywhere...

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