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Date: April 17th, 2009

When hope and change were the real goals and were achieved

17 April, 2009 (23:35) | History | By: ricjames

On April 18, 1942 a daring mission led by Army Air Corp Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle was launched from the pitching deck of the carrier USS Hornet 650 miles off the coast of Japan. The raid which would bear Doolittle’s name was to launch 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers to bomb Tokyo, the heart of Imperial [...]