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Doolittle Raiders honored in Capitol ceremony

Lt. Col. James Doolittle, left, accepts a medal from the skipper of the USS Hornet, Capt. Marc A. Mitscher. The medal, once given to a U.S. Navy officer by the Japanese, was wired to a 500-pound bomb dropped during the April 18, 1942, bombing of the Japanese mainland. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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