Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle leads an American air raid on Japan in retaliation for the Pearl Harbor attack. The raid, launched by U.S. Army B-25 bombers from the USS Hornet, suprised the Japanese people as an attack on the Japanese home islands and dented Japanese imperial prestige. While the raid only caused minor damage, it helped boost American morale and forced the Japanese fleet to abandon its Indian Ocean campaign.
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