Thursday, August 4, 2016

Wild Rides – Seven of the Strangest Bomber Raids of WW2

Wild Rides - Seven of the Strangest Bomber Raids of WW2

IT HAD ONLY been 132 days since the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor when the United States brought the war to Emperor Hirohito's doorstep. On April 18, 1942, 16 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers took off from the carrier as the vessel and a small escort fleet, codenamed Task Force 16, secretly steamed to within 650 miles of the Japanese home islands.

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