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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and starts military operations against the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands.
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Japanese forces invade the Philippines and Malaya.
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Surface radar contact is made by Enterprise crew members with Japanese picket ships.
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Enterprise launches the first combat air patrols.
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Search planes are sent out; one crew believes they have seen a ship and that the Japanese have spotted them
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Nitto Maru reports to IJN HQ in Tokyo that it has seen three carriers. Coincidently, Japanese launch routine patrol aircraft.
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Hornet crew members, on watch, spot the Nitto Maru.
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The USS Nashville attacks the Nitto Maru and eventually sinks her.
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Halsey decides to launch the raid early since he beleieves TF-16 is now known to the Japanese.
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Hornet increases speed and turns into the wind for launch.
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Doolittle's plae is the first off the Hornet to bomb Tokyo.
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The last B-25 leaves the Hornet, TF-16 immediately plots coruse for return to Pearly Harbor.
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Japanese obsevers spot bombersflying over MIto, and repot their findings.
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Doolittle attacks his first target in the Tokyo area.
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The IJN's 26th Air Flotilla is ordered to search and destroy any attacking bombers.
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USS Nashville sinks a patrol boat. Enterprise aircraft sink another.
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First news of Tokyo bombing raid is broadcast via radio transmission.
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