The depiction of the Doolittle Raid in Pearl Harbor is " just so bad," according to a historian. Directed by Michael Bay and written by Randall Wallace (Braveheart), the 2001 war film depicts the ...

The Doolittle Raiders, named for their commander Jimmy Doolittle, trained for their mission at Eglin Field in Florida and then launched on Tokyo from the first USS Hornet CV-8 aircraft carrier.

The Doolittle Raid was a 1942 bombing operation against Japan's capital, in retribution for the Pearl Harbor attack.

Doolittle died in 1993, but the raid keeps its hold on the nation's imagination. Raider reunions are public events, not merely gatherings of old war buddies.

The raid was scheduled for the night of April 19, 1942. Doolittle and Cole, in the lead bomber, were to drop incendiary tubes over Tokyo to set fires that would guide the trailing crews.

It's been 81 years since the U.S., still struggling after Japan’s devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, hit back with the Doolittle Raid.

On the 75th anniversary of the famous Doolittle Raid, a surprise aerial attack on Tokyo that changed history, the last surviving Doolittle Raider remembers.

Once Doolittle’s raid leaked out, it was a ray of much needed national hope. As the bombers left Japanese air space after the raid, none of the B-25’s had been brought down, several took hits ...

A group of 80 American airmen known as the Doolittle Raiders is in line to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for their bravery in the first U.S. air raid on Japan in World War II. The House of ...

Colorized photos of the U.S. pilots and crew before they took off for the raid have been released to mark the anniversary.

The "Ruptured Duck," a a B-25 Mitchell bomber that was flown during the Doolittle Raid in 1942. {Courtesy: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base] Walt Disney was too old to be drafted during World War ...