The photographic record

One photograph can open the whole story.

Search the recovered collections, follow photographs back to crews and Raiders, and help restore the context that time separated from the image.

B-25 bombers aboard USS Hornet

The recovered collection

950 publication-cleared archive masters are indexed.

The legacy server held 1,255 current original-image records—not 3,855 unique photographs. Exact duplicates have been consolidated; 103 imported records remain held for rights or privacy review, contact-form uploads remain private, and unassigned material remains outside publication.

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Archive status

The images are here. Their context is the next responsibility.

Most legacy records arrived without captions, dates, credits, or descriptive tags. The archive preserves their original collection and page relationships while that editorial work continues.

Help identify a photograph

Children of the Doolittle Raiders archive

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