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Raided Tokyo, Escaped Japanese by Hiding in Cave

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09553.13 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 18 April 1942 Pagination: 1 silver gelatin ; 23.7 x 20.8 cm. Order a Copy

A black and white photograph of U.S. Army Air Corps men outside a cave in Japan following the Doolittle Raid. Attached to the back of the photograph is a press clipping describing the photograph with the date April 22, 1943. Removed from an unknown mount.

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