Sixteen aircraft. Eighty men.

Aircraft 01

Crew No. 1

Bailed out over China

• James H. Doolittle
• Richard E. Cole
• Henry A. Potter
• Fred A. Braemer
• Paul J. Leonard

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Aircraft 02

Crew No. 2

Crash-landed in China

• Travis Hoover
• William N. Fitzhugh
• Carl R. Wildner
• Richard E. Miller
• Douglas V. Radney

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Aircraft 03

Crew No. 3

Whisky Pete

Bailed out over China

• Robert M. Gray
• Jacob E. Manch
• Charles J. Ozuk
• Aden E. Jones
• Leland D. Faktor

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Aircraft 04

Crew No. 4

Bailed out over China

• Everett W. Holstrom
• Lucian N. Youngblood
• Harry C. McCool
• Robert J. Stephens
• Bert M. Jordan

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Aircraft 05

Crew No. 5

Bailed out over China

• David M. Jones
• Rodney R. Wilder
• Eugene F. McGurl
• Denver V. Truelove
• Joseph W. Manske

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Aircraft 06

Crew No. 6

The Green Hornet

Ditched; three captured

• Dean E. Hallmark
• Robert J. Meder
• Chase J. Nielsen
• William J. Dieter
• Donald E. Fitzmaurice

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Aircraft 07

Crew No. 7

The Ruptured Duck

Ditched off the China coast

• Ted W. Lawson
• Dean Davenport
• Charles L. McClure
• Robert S. Clever
• David J. Thatcher

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Aircraft 08

Crew No. 8

Landed in the Soviet Union

• Edward J. York
• Robert G. Emmens
• Nolan A. Herndon
• Theodore H. Laban
• David W. Pohl

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Aircraft 09

Crew No. 9

Whirling Dervish

Bailed out over China

• Harold F. Watson
• James M. Parker Jr.
• Thomas C. Griffin
• William M. Bissell
• Eldred V. Scott

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Aircraft 10

Crew No. 10

Bailed out over China

• Richard O. Joyce
• J. Royden Stork
• Horace E. Crouch
• George E. Larkin Jr.
• Edwin W. Horton Jr.

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Aircraft 11

Crew No. 11

Hari Kari-er

Bailed out over China

• Charles R. Greening
• Kenneth E. Reddy
• Frank A. Kappeler
• William L. Birch
• Melvin J. Gardner

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Aircraft 12

Crew No. 12

Fickle Finger

Bailed out over China

• William M. Bower
• Thadd H. Blanton
• William R. Pound Jr.
• Waldo J. Bither
• Omer A. Duquette

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Aircraft 13

Crew No. 13

The Avenger

Bailed out over China

• Edgar E. McElroy
• Richard A. Knobloch
• Clayton J. Campbell
• Robert C. Bourgeois
• Adam R. Williams

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Aircraft 14

Crew No. 14

Bailed out over China

• John A. Hilger
• Jack A. Sims
• James H. Macia Jr.
• Edwin V. Bain
• Jacob Eierman

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Aircraft 15

Crew No. 15

TNT

Ditched off the China coast

• Donald G. Smith
• Griffith P. Williams
• Howard A. Sessler
• Thomas R. White
• Edward J. Saylor

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Aircraft 16

Crew No. 16

Bat Out of Hell

Captured as prisoners of war

• William G. Farrow
• Robert L. Hite
• George Barr
• Jacob D. DeShazer
• Harold A. Spatz

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