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| Description | View from the island of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the "Doolittle Raid" mission's launching point. The light cruiser USS Nashville (CL-43) is in the distance. Eight of the mission's 16 B-25B bombers are visible on the carrier's flight deck. Aircraft at right is tail No. 40-2250 and mission plane No. 10. 2nd Lt. Richard O. Joyce piloted the aircraft to targets in the Tokyo area. (U.S. Navy photo) |
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| Source | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force [1] photo 060415-F-0000G-022 [2], also U.S. Navy photo NH 53421 [3]; Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here. |
| Author | The original uploader was Signaleer at English Wikipedia., 2006-12-13 (original upload date) |
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- 2006-12-13 23:19 Signaleer 737×608×8 (259309 bytes) View from the island of USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the mission's launching point. USS Nashville (CL-43) is in the distance. Eight of the mission's 16 B-25B bombers are visible on the carrier's flight deck. Aircraft at right is tail No. 40-2250 a
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| current | 20:51, 4 February 2025 | | 5,734 × 4,607 (2.19 MB) | JayCubby | Cropped 3 % horizontally, 4 % vertically, 6 % areawise using CropTool with precise mode. |
| 20:49, 4 February 2025 |  | 5,888 × 4,796 (2.27 MB) | JayCubby | higher res from same source (https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-53000/NH-53421.html) | |
| 17:45, 17 February 2010 |  | 737 × 591 (275 KB) | Cobatfor | caption bar cropped | |
| 13:52, 27 September 2007 |  | 737 × 608 (253 KB) | Liftarn | {{Information |Description=View from the island of USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the mission's launching point. USS Nashville (CL-43) is in the distance. Eight of the mission's 16 B-25B bombers are visible on the carrier's flight deck. Aircraft at |
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