Crew 10

The plane was attacked by 9 Japanese fighters when they were dropping there bombs on Tokio. It was the only plane seriously hit by Japanese defense over Tokio. The plane had a hole in the fusalage.

Dropped their 4 bombs in Tokio areas and the bombing was also effective. The one incendiary bomb was dropped @ 35 36 46 N 139 43 52 E  

There is something wrong with the group photo of the crew members. The tall man pictured in the center of the group photo is believed by many Raiders to have never been on the Doolitlle mission with them. The soldier that actually went on a mission is therefore not in the picture. Basically the actual Horton Jr. is not in the photo. I have the image of the actual Horton Jr. attached beneath this article. It is of course difficult to prove this story. Yet some sources mention it. It looks as the group photo is adapted, certainly the black and white picture. But hard to prove this story. Here attached you see the real picture of Horton Jr.

Can someone try to find out this stoy? Would be interesting to know. The information is in the book of Carroll V. Glines. The Doolittle Raid : Carroll V. Glines : ISBN 978-0-88740-347-7

The crew jumped out of the plane with their bags filled with candy and chocolate. When they jumped out of the plane it was raining hard and there was a lot of wind. The crew ended up in the Zheijan province not far from where crew 12 also came down with their parachutes. They were picked up by the Chinese resistance and taken to free China and later smuggled out of the country. 

This aircraft was the 16th aircraft loaded onto the US Hornet in San Francisco. The plane was supposed to take off as a demonstration flight for the other crews aboard the USS Hornet and the sailors involved in Task Force 18. The takeoff was assumed to be just off the coast of San Francisco. would take the aircraft to Tokio because it could then be used during the mission and could also drop bombs over Japan.

The demonstration flight was to fly to Florida to drop off Lieutenant Henry "Hank" Miller.  Miller was the lieutenant in charge of training the crews mainly in Englin, Florida. After all, he was on board the USS Hornet without an assignment. But as I said, Miller sailed to Tokio. When the B-25s took off, he gave instructions to the pilots from the flight deck of the USS Hornet to take off safely towards Tokyo. So, he was on board of the USS Hornet but didn't take part in the mission.

The crew arrived in Chongqing end April/early May 1942.

Sergeant George Larking Jr. was killed near Assam in India in a plane crash (bomber crashed) on 18 October 1942. He was reburied in Honolulu, Hawaii, after Wolrd War 2.

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