Lt. Col. James Doolittle leads B-25s off the USS Hornet's deck on a 1942 mission to bomb Japan. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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Coaxing a hulking Mitchell B-25 into the sky from a short, 500-foot carrier runway on a bouncing sea is dangerous. Tougher still is doing it with a full bomb load. But for Lt. Col. James Dolittle (Tracy) and the crewmen of 16 B-25s, that's just the start of the mission. Academy Award-winning Best Special Effects recreate the squadron's low-altitude, "hedge-hopping" sweep over Japan in this suspenseful saga of the attack that bolstered U.S. morale during the bleak early days of the Pacific war. (1944), BW, 139 min., PG-13, CC, Warner Home Video.
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