Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (front), leader of the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan. The planes were launched on 18 April 1942.
The wartime censor has obscurred unit patches of the Air Force flight crew members in the background. &quot;Deo Vindice&quot; texag57

Tokyo Bound

P-40's from the 57th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force taking off from an airfield in Tunisia. 

P-40's in Tunisia

Roll call of the 26th Bombardment Squadron on Tarawa.March-April 1944.Now called the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron present day.(rudeerude)