208-PU-53A-1:   Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942.   Original caption, “In April 1942, the U.S. and the world at large was electrified by an announcement by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that American fliers had carried the Battle of the Pacific to the heart of the Japanese empire with a surprising and daring raid on military targets at Tokyo, Yokohoma, Osaka, Kobe, and other Rising Sun industrial centers.   Reasons of security have presented the full story, the story of the Shangri-La where the flight of medium North American B-25 bombers started – from being told until now.  Today, the U.S. Navy presents in a dramatic series of pictures the take-off of the dangerous mission, headed by Major General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, USA, from the deck of USS Hornet (CV 8), April 18, 1942.”   Shown:  Tightly wired to the fin of a 500-pound bomb, a Rising Sun medal is secure to return to its ancestors.  This bomb and others carried by the Army fliers were the first ever to be dropped by “foreigners” on the Islands of Japan.   U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.  (2017/05/02).
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