The Doolittle Raiders | History of SC Slide Collection

The Columbia Army Air Base in Lexington County became the headquarters of Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's famous "Raiders," who trained there for their bombing run over Tokyo.

Courtesy of the Thomas Cooper Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina.

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.