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Gen. Doolittle's Men Hide in a Cave

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09553.14 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 18 April 1942 Pagination: 1 silver gelatin photograph Height: 19.2 cm, Width: 24.7 cm Order a Copy

A black and white photograph of U.S. Army Air Corps men outside a cave in Japan following the Doolittle Raid. Attached to the back of the photograph is a press clipping describing the photograph with the date April 22, 1943. This is a close up of photograph GLC09553.13.

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