Doolittle Tokyo Raiders

On 18 April 1942, Lt. Colonel James H. Doolittle led a successful bombing mission of military targets in principal cities of Japan along with 79 airmen of the U.S. Army Air Forces flying 16 B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers. They took ...

Doolittle Raiders

Symbolizing the strength and endurance of South Carolinians, these Palmetto trees commemorate the Columbia trained Doolittle Raiders whose courage and patriotism in the early hours of World War II rallied

a beleagured nation to save Western civization and all mankind ...

The Doolittle Raiders

In February 1942, twenty-four B-25

bomber crews of the 17th Bombardment

Group at Columbia Army Air Base

volunteered to take part in a secret

project headed by Lt. Col. James H.

Doolittle. This group was the nucleus

of the Doolittle Raiders who, taking

off from the aircraft ...

Columbia Army Air Base / The Doolittle Raiders

Columbia Army Air Base

Built during 1941 as the Lexington County Airport, this airfield became the Columbia Army Air Base shortly after the U.S. entered World War II in December, 1941. The base was used to train crews for

medium bombardment ...