Do you remember the Doolittle Raid?

Dave Ives
6 min readAug 9, 2018

I don’t remember the Doolittle raid. It happened long before I was born, April 1942.

The raid involved launching a bunch of Army bombers off an aircraft carrier and attacking the Japanese mainland. Pretty bold stunt considering the Japanese Navy controlled virtually all the Pacific Ocean at that time. The leader of the team, Jimmy Doolittle, piloted the first plane off the carrier and flew into the…

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