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niSDoolittle Tells Of Japan RaidPresident DecoratesAir Speed King: ^ hoLed Recent AssaultBv the Associated Press) Washington. May 19—The recent American air-raid on Japan was revealed today as a foray which found American airmen flying so low they could s^e the amazed expressions on faces below, dropping bombs when within sight of th* imperial palace in Tokyo and leaving a swath of destruction 40 miles long and five“ to 20 miles wide.Not a single American plane waslost.Its leader was Brig Gen James H Doolittle. -‘Jimmy” Doolittle, the famous speed record holder of the days of peace President Roosevelt pinned a congressional medal ofhonor to his tunic at the WhiteHouse and with that ceremony,numerous details of the attack were disclosed.
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Bradford, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, May 20, 1942
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