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I counted 16 planes. Did Hornet depart from San Diego or San Francisco?
Didn't look like the San Diego Bridge.
Plenty of photos of her deck on Navsource.I saw this photo, I do not know if it's real or created. From this photo its hard to imagine the deck load spotting for the take off. Has anyone seen an aerial photo of Hornet with the B-25s spotted ready to take off?
All B-25s had to taxi forward to a certain point at the island, which was the tightest spot on the deck, for takeoff. All B-25s had the same takeoff run.Plenty of photos of her deck on Navsource.
During the trip to Japan some of her air group found their way to the flight deck at times - F4F forward, SBD aft amongst the B-25. The flight deck was respotted, probably the day before the launch, to move the B-25 as far aft as possible to increase the take off run of the foremost B-25s.
I should have looked closer. William Phillips was prolific when the signed and numbered lithograph market was big. Laser printing ended that market. Many small galleries closed.Sure it does, sorta.
This picture, however, is a painting. Look on the right-hand side about halfway down this page:
I thought "didn't look like the San Diego Bridge." was funny.
But note how they were arranged on deck leaving the USA. Two parallel rows from just aft of the forward liftAll B-25s had to taxi forward to a certain point at the island, which was the tightest spot on the deck, for takeoff. All B-25s had the same takeoff run.
Its great that people realized how momentous this mission was, and photographed it so well. If only they used color film.Note that there originally were supposed to be only 15 B-25's on the raid. The 16th was a "spare" that Doolittle demanded to be loaded along with its two pilots after they followed the rest across the country without authorization. They formed a crew with spare personnel and that was the B-25 that diverted to Russia.
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Especially as that bridge wasn't built until Feb 1967-Aug-1969.I thought "didn't look like the San Diego Bridge." was funny.