The Doolittle Raid

A pictorial history of America’s response to Pearl Harbor, with “hundreds of photos of the various stages of the raid” ( ModelingMadness ). On April 1, 1942, less than four months after the world was stunned by the attack on Pearl Harbor, sixteen US aircraft took to the skies to exact retribution. Their objective was not merely to attack Japan, but to bomb its capital. The people of Tokyo, who had been told that their city was invulnerable from the air, would be bombed and strafed—and the shock