B-25 airplane taking off, 1942

Object summary

Title: B-25 airplane taking off, 1942
Object ID: GCP-00006200
Date made: 1942-04-18
Place made: Pacific Ocean, USS Hornet
Maker: Wide World Photos
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

A B-25 airplane takes off from the aircraft carrier Hornet. Stamp on verso reads "Apr 5 1952".

Original Caption: "Off To Bomb Tokyo--1942 Off to bomb Tokyo, a North American B-25, one of 16 raiders, led by Lt. Gen. James Doolittle (then he was a lieutenant colonel), leaves the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet, 800 miles away from the Japanese capital, on April 18, 1942. Today, 10 years later, 60 of the 80 offcers [sic] who took part in the famous Doolittle raid are still alive."