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==Participating aircraft== <gallery mode="packed" |heights="200px"> File:Army B-25 (Doolittle Raid).jpg|A B-25 Mitchell taking off from {{USS|Hornet|CV-8|6}} for the raid File:April 18 1942 USS Hornet CV8 Doolittle.jpg|B-25 Mitchells aboard USS ''Hornet'' File:USS Hornet (CV-8) with USS Gwin (DD-433) during Doolittle Raid 1942.jpg|Aft flight deck of USS ''Hornet'' File:B-25 40-2242 Doolittle Raider.jpg|B-25 piloted by Capt. York after emergency landing in the Soviet Union File:208-PU-53A-14 (34027835380).jpg|Nose art of ''Hari Kari-er'' </gallery> In order of launching, the 16 aircraft were:<ref name="Joyce" /> {| class="wikitable" |- ! align=center|AAF serial number || align=center|Nickname || align=center|Sqdn || align=center|Target || align=center|Pilot || align=center|Disposition |- |align=center|40-2344|| || || Tokyo|| Lt. Col. [[Jimmy Doolittle|James H. Doolittle]]|| crashed N [[Quzhou]], China |- |align=center|40-2292|| || [[37th Bomb Squadron|37th BS]] || Tokyo|| 1st Lt. Travis Hoover|| crashed [[Ningbo]], China |- |align=center|40-2270|| ''Whiskey Pete''|| [[95th Reconnaissance Squadron|95th BS]]|| Tokyo|| 1st Lt. Robert M. Gray|| crashed SE Quzhou, China |- |align=center|40-2282|| || 95th BS|| Tokyo|| 1st Lt. [[Everett W. Holstrom]]|| crashed SE [[Shangrao]], China |- |align=center|40-2283|| || 95th BS|| Tokyo|| Capt. [[David M. Jones]]|| crashed SW Quzhou, China |- |align=center|40-2298|| ''The Green Hornet''|| 95th BS|| Tokyo|| 1st Lt. Dean E. Hallmark|| ditched at sea [[Wenzhou]], China |- |align=center|40-2261||''The Ruptured Duck''|| 95th BS|| Tokyo|| 1st Lt. [[Ted W. Lawson]]|| ditched at sea [[Changshu]], China |- |align=center|40-2242|| || 95th BS|| Tokyo|| Capt. [[Edward J. York]]{{refn|group=note |York was born Edward Joseph Cichowski and was known as "Ski". He legally changed his name to York in early 1942 before the raid.}}|| interned [[Primorsky Krai]], [[USSR]] |- |align=center|40-2303|| ''Whirling Dervish''|| [[34th Bomb Squadron|34th BS]] || Tokyo|| 1st Lt. Harold F. Watson|| crashed S [[Nanchang]], China |- |align=center|40-2250|| || [[432d Attack Squadron|89th RS]]|| Tokyo|| 1st Lt. Richard O. Joyce|| crashed NE Quzhou, China |- |align=center|40-2249|| ''Hari Kari-er''|| 89th RS|| Yokohama|| Capt. [[Charles Ross Greening|C. Ross Greening]] || crashed NE Quzhou, China |- |align=center|40-2278|| ''Fickle Finger of Fate''|| [[37th Bomb Squadron|37th BS]] || Yokohama|| 1st Lt. [[Bill Bower|William M. Bower]]|| crashed NE Quzhou, China |- |align=center|40-2247|| ''The Avenger'' || [[37th Bomb Squadron|37th BS]] || Yokosuka|| 1st Lt. Edgar E. McElroy|| crashed N Nanchang, China |- |align=center|40-2297|| || 89th RS|| Nagoya|| Maj. [[John A. Hilger]]|| crashed SE Shangrao, China |- |align=center|40-2267|| ''TNT'' || 89th RS|| Kobe|| 1st Lt. Donald G. Smith|| ditched at sea Changshu, China |- |align=center|40-2268|| ''Bat Out of Hell''|| [[34th Bomb Squadron|34th BS]] || Nagoya|| 1st Lt. [[William G. Farrow]]|| crashed S Ningbo, China |}
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