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Only 15 men from historic World War II attack are alive today. SAN MARCOS — One April morning 65 years ago, James Doolittle launched his B-25 bomber from the seesawing deck of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Fifteen bombers followed in the first U.S. air raid on Japan in World War II. Reports of the raid buoyed American morale just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor and showed the world that Japan, which had been rapidly advancing across the Pacific, was not invincible. The story of bomber crews flying at wave-top level toward their targets, knowing...