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 carrier "Hornet," bombed
Tokyo on April 18, 1942.
Marker is on Airport Boulevard near the "Cell-phone" Parking lot.
Courtesy hmdb.org
