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| Date: | Saturday 18 April 1942 |
| Time: | 22:00 |
| Type: |  North American B-25B Mitchell |
| Owner/operator: | USAAF |
| Registration: | 40-2270 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Jiangshan County-Level City, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province -
 China
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
North American B-25B Mitchell #40-2270, nicknamed Whiskey Pete, took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet for an one-way mission to attack Japan.
The aircraft nearly reached the planned landing site in Quzhou; nonetheless, because of poor coordination between USA and China, no ground navigation aid was given to the flight crew. Captain Robert M. Gray ordered the crew to bail out at 22:00, as fuel was going to be used up. All occupants bailed out except for Leland D. Faktor, who failed to leave the B-25 Mitchell and sustained fatal injuries when the airplane crashed into mountains.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
childrenofthedoolittleraiders.com
Zheng, W. 2016. Landing in China: the Doolittle Tokyo Raid. Beijing, China: Popular Science Press. (in Chinese)
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 05-Mar-2025 03:07 | RDV | Added |
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