"This is...the B-25J In the Mood on take off from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) off the coast of California during Fleet Week of October 1995. Bill Klaers and Alan Wojciak were the pilots."
B-25 "Heavenly Body" and "In the Mood" stand ready for launch on the flight deck
of the carrier U.S.S. Ranger (CV-61) in San Diego Bay. In April 1992,
"Heavenly Body" was the first B-25 in fifty years to fly from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Jimmy Doolittle leads the first of sixteen B-25B Mitchell bombers were launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet 18th April 1942
B-25 aircraft of the Doolittle RaidIn order of launching, the 16 aircraft were:
AAF serial # Nickname Sqdn Target Pilot Disposition40-2344 34th BS Tokyo Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle crashed N Chuchow, China
40-2292 37th BS Tokyo Lt. Travis Hoover crashed-landed Ningpo, China
40-2270 Whiskey Pete 95th BS Tokyo Lt. Robert M. Gray crashed SE Chuchow, China
40-2282 95th BS Tokyo Lt. Everett W. Holstrom crashed SE Shangjao, China
40-2283 95th BS Tokyo Capt. David M. Jones crashed SW Chuchow, China
40-2298 The Green Hornet 95th BS Tokyo Lt. Dean E. Hallmark ditched at sea Wenchu, China
40-2261 The Ruptured Duck 95th BS Tokyo Lt. Ted W. Lawson ditched at sea Shangchow, China
40-2242 95th BS Tokyo Capt. Edward J. York interned Primorsky Krai, Siberia
40-2303 Whirling Dervish 34th BS Tokyo Lt. Harold F. Watson crashed S Nanchang, China
40-2250 89th RS Tokyo Lt. Richard O. Joyce crashed NE Chuchow, China
40-2249 Hari Kari-er 89th RS Yokohama Capt. C. Ross Greening crashed NE Chuchow, China
40-2278 Fickle Finger of Fate 37th BS Yokohama Lt. William M. Bower crashed NE Chuchow, China
40-2247 The Avenger 37th BS Yokosuka Lt. Edgar E. McElroy crashed N Nanchang, China
40-2297 89th RS Nagoya Maj. John A. Hilger crashed SE Shangjao, China
40-2267 TNT 89th RS Kobe Lt. Donald G. Smith ditched at sea Shangchow, China
40-2268 Bat Out of Hell 34th BS Nagoya Lt. William G. Farrow crashed S Ningpo, China
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