Children of the Doolittle Raiders

The people inside the mission

Sixteen crews. Eighty individual lives.

Enter through an aircraft and the men who flew together, or begin with one Raider and follow his place across the formation.

The crew of Aircraft 7, The Ruptured Duck

One formation, many ways in

The number matters because every name remains visible.

The restored record connects sixteen aircraft, eighty service records, crew outcomes, and the photographs that survived around them. These are parallel paths into the same human story.

Aircraft and crewsMeet the sixteen crews Individual recordsExplore all eighty Raiders Photographic evidenceSearch the crew collection

Across the recovered collection

Crew photographs carried forward.

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Recovered photograph All Crews collection Legacy file 1144

Children of the Doolittle Raiders archive

Recovered from the formerly public legacy archive. Caption, date, credit, and identification review are continuing.