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Chinese Rescue Crashed Shangri-La Bombers

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09553.11 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 18 April 1942 Pagination: 1 silver gelatin ; 17.9 x 22.9 cm. Order a Copy

A black and white photograph of Chinese soldiers bringing a group of General Doolittle's raiders in a small village near where their bomber crashed. Featured in the photograph is Colonel John Hilger, who was injured in the crash. Attached to the back of the photograph is a press clipping describing the photograph with the date April 21, 1943.

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