[sanchmo]

Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (front), leader of the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan. The planes were launched on 18 April 1942. The wartime censor has obscurred unit patches of the Air Force flight crew members in the background.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the pictures. Those pilots and their crew members were incredible. The Hornet's decks are really short when compared to our present carrier decks.

[rockfish59]

If you notice that white line on the left side of the deck.
They had to follow that because the wing tip came very close to the carrier island.