They took off from the carrier and successfully bombed Tokyo and four other Japanese cities without loss.
In April she helped escort the Doolittle raid that bombed Tokyo.
The first raid from the east was on 24 November 1944 when 88 aircraft bombed Tokyo.
That's what Doolittle bombed Tokyo with.
After American aviators had bombed Tokyo, Japan on April 18, 1942, one of the sixteen B-25 bombers landed in Vladivostok, due to shortage of fuel.
The light cruiser and her consorts appeared off the coast of Honshū, Japan, on 16 February and screened the carriers as their planes bombed Tokyo.
On April 18, 1942, sixteen aircraft bombed Tokyo in what has become known as the Doolittle Raid.
They had flown from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), bombed Tokyo, then flown to the Chinese mainland.
Earl Johnson, then a 27-year-old operations officer, was aboard one of the B-29 bombers that bombed Tokyo 50 years ago, and after a talk in Tokyo today he answered a question about the morality of the mission.