17th Bombardment Group (17th BG) "Doolittle Raiders"
North American B-25 Mitchells
34th Bombardment Squadron (34th BS)
B-25B 40-2344 piloted by Doolittle (take off #1) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 bailed out north of Quzhou, China
B-25B 40-2303 pilot Lt. Harold F. Watson (take off #10) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 balied out 100 miles south Poyang Lake, China
B-25B "The Bat " 40-2268 pilot Farrow (take off #16) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 ditched west of Shangchow, crew POW, executed
37th Bombardment Squadron (37th BS)
B-25B "Whirling Dervish" 40-2292 pilot Hoover (take off #2) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 force landed rice paddy near Ningpo, China
B-25B 40-2278 pilot Bower (take off #12) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 bailed out 40 miles northwest of Chuchow, China
B-25B 40-2247 pilot McElroy (take off #13) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 bailed out near Poyang, China
89th Bombardment Squadron (89th BS)
B-25B 40-2250 pilot Joyce (take off #9) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 bailed out 30 miles north of Chuchowm China
B-25B "Hari Carrie/Hari Kari-er" 40-2249 pilot Greening (take off #11) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 bailed out 40 miles NW Chuchow, China
B-25B 40-2297 pilot Hilger (take off #14) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 bailed out southeast of Shangjoa, China
B-25B "TNT" 40-2267 pilot Smith (take off #15) Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 ditched west of Sangchow, China
95th Bombardment Squadron (95th BS)
B-25B "Whiskey Pete" 40-2270 pilot Gray (take off #3) bailed out in the mountains southeast of Chuchow, China
B-25B 40-2282 pilot Holstrom (take off #4) bailed out southeast of Shangjac, China
B-25B 40-2283 pilot Jones (take off #5) bailed out southeast of Chuchow, China
B-25B "Green Hornet" 40-2298 pilot Hallmark (take off #6) crashed Nangchang near Poyang Lake, crew POWs
B-25B "Ruptured Duck" 40-2261 pilot Lawson (take off #7) ditched west of Shangchow, China crew rescued
B-25B 40-2242 pilot York (take off #8) landed Primorskrai Airfield (Primiori) near Vladivostok in the Soviet Union, crew returned
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