Scott, James M. books

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

—COMMANDER RUSSELL IHRIG, APRIL 3, 1942 THE HORNET TOWERED OVER Pier One at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Alameda on the afternoon of April 1, 1942. The 19,800-ton carrier had departed Norfolk on March 4, transiting the Panama Canal en route to San Diego and then San Francisco, where it had arriv...