Doolittle Tokyo Raiders - remarque with extra signatures by Robert Taylor Kurt Kuhlmey and Gerhard Studemann

Kurt Kuhlmey and Gerhard Studemann

This was the first of three Eagle Squadrons

Response to the Call shows two Mk I Hurricanes scrambling from their front-line airfield to meet the threat during the Battle of Britain

the other three pilots flew more that 100 missions between them

Firing rockets in salvos and strafing with their forward machine guns

Doolittle Tokyo Raiders - remarque with extra signatures by Robert Taylor Kurt Kuhlmey and Gerhard StudemannOn the 18th April, 1942 a short time after Pearl Harbor 16 B 25's took off from the carrier Hornet in heavy seas. The B 25's had been stripped down to enable them to get off the deck. The target was Tokyo 800 miles away. The raiders managed to reach and bomb Tokyo then fly on to China to crash land. The shock of the raid on Japan caused the military to try and expand its perimeter further into the central and south Pacific with catastrophic