Robert Taylor

INTO THE TEETH OF THE WIND

By Robert Taylor

overall print size 24" high x 30" wide

Bound for Tokyo ,Lieutenant colonel Jimmy Doolittle launches his B-25 Mitchell from the heaving deck of the carrier USS Hornet on the morning of 18 April 1942. Leading a sixteen-bomber force on their long distance (one-way mission ) the Doolittle Raiders completed the first strike at the heart of imperial Japan,since the infamous attack on Pearl Harbour four months earlier. Together they completed one of the most audacious air raids in aviation history.