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A U.S. Army Air Force B-25B Mitchell medium bomber, one of 16 involved in the Doolittle Raid, takes off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet for an air raid on Japan, April 18, 1942
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In a photograph found after Japan's surrender in 1945, Lt. Robert L. Hite, copilot of crew 16, is led blindfolded from a Japanese transport aircraft after his B-25 crash landed in a China after bombing Nagoya on the the "Doolittle Raid" on Japan and he was captured. He was imprisoned for 40 months, but survived the war.