Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo

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Original – Newsreel footage covering the Doolittle Raid
Reason
A Castle Films Newsreel discussing the Doolittle Raid, including interviews and footage from the task force ships involved in the air raid - notably, the film captures the first ever bomber raid launched from carrier ships, as USS Hornet (CV-8) was used to ferry the 16 B-25 Mitchell aircraft to a distance from which they could strike the Empire of Japan's home island. A veritable gold mine for historians, the footage is irreplaceable in every sense of the word and historically valuable in every sense of the phrase, hence the nomination here.
Articles in which this image appears
Doolittle Raid
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator
Castle Films, US Government

Promoted File:Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo.ogv --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:53, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Belated comment - I (the uploader) wasn't notified of this nomination, but I'd like to point out that the file is available in much higher resolution (630 mb)[1], if someone wants to convert the mpg to ogv. FunkMonk (talk) 08:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]