Destination Tokyo by Anthony Saunders. REG426 5 and climbed to 50

5 and climbed to 50

The remarkable Fairey Swordfish served with distinction throughout WWII

Attack on Plancenoit by Prussian Divisions of Hiller

Image size 16 inches x 24 inches (41cm x 61cm)

Destination Tokyo by Anthony Saunders. REG426 5 and climbed to 50DHM6591. Destination Tokyo by Anthony Saunders. The daylight raid on Tokyo, led by Lt Col James H. Doolittle on Sunday 18 April 1942, has rightfully entered the history books as one of the most daring and courageous operations of the Second World War. On that day, in mid ocean, Doolittle had launched his B 25 Mitchell bomber from the heaving, spray soaked flight deck of an aircraft carrier, a deck too short to land on, and flown on to bomb Tokyo. He