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    SECONDARY VILLAINS

    Sep 29, 2020 2 minutes

    HE DOOLITTLE RAID is one of the greatest stories of World War II, a virtual suicide mission flown by 80 volunteer airmen aiming to pummel Tokyo and then escape to free China. As such, the April 1942 mission led by famed aviator Jimmy Doolittle has been the subject

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