Tokyo Raid April 18, 1942

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Eighty years ago Lt Col James Doolittle and his group of sixteen B-25B medium bombers raided Tokyo and other cities.

This first air operation to bomb Japan caused little damage and all the bombers were lost in China except one in Russia. But this raid demonstrated that Japan was vulnerable to US air attacks and a big boost to American morale

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