SC Veterans in History, Part 7 - World War II | Project Discovery - Episode 7

In 2009, student filmmaker Morgan Adams created a film about the Doolittle Raiders for the National History Day Competition.

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States government asked for volunteers for a dangerous mission. A group of 79 B-25 bomber pilots, led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, flew off the flight deck of the U.S.S. Hornet to bomb Japan. Sixty-seven years later, they met for a reunion in Columbia, South Carolina, where Morgan interviewed them. 

A question about the Yorktown I and II is answered. 

Standards

• 5.3 Demonstrate an understanding of the economic, political, and social effects of World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath (i.e., 1930–1950) on the United States and South Carolina.
  • 5.3.CX Contextualize the technological and geographic influence on military strategies in the Pacific and European theaters of war of World War II.
• 8.5.CO Compare South Carolina and U.S. wartime contributions and demobilization after World War II.