World War Two Pacific 1942

Commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Henry "Hap" Arnold presents Distinguished Flying Cross medals to the crews of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo at Bolling Field on 29th June 1942 in Washington DC, United States. The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air attack by the United States Army Air Force led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle on the Japanese capital Tokyo on 18th April 1942 as retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor by flying 16 B-25B Mitchell medium bombers from the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).