A China-US people-to-people exchange event commemorating the Doolittle Raid Rescue in 1942 took place on April 18 in Quzhou, East China's Zhejiang province.

In 1942, after a daring bombing raid on Japan, 75 US pilots, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, were forced to bail out or crash-land in China after running out of fuel. The Chinese people rescued 64 of these airmen, including those who recuperated in Quzhou.

At the event, Jeffrey Greene, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, presented two sets of US pilot uniforms in World War II to Zhejiang Quzhou High School and to the Memorial Hall to the Doolittle Raid in Quzhou.

A Liberation Daily newspaper on the Doolittle Raid in 1942 is given to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. [Photo/WeChat account: quzhoufb]

Additionally, the director of the memorial hall gifted a replica of a Liberation Daily newspaper to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. This newspaper reported on the Doolittle Raid in 1942, serving as a historical testament to the event.

George Retelas, a representative from the USS Hornet Museum, donated a film reel documenting a training exercise of the Doolittle Raid crew before the mission to the Quzhou Doolittle Raid Historical Research Association. This reel was originally donated by the family of the co-pilot of the 13th crew of the Doolittle Raid.

In return, the association presented a piece of the wreckage from the 9th crew's B-25 bomber of the Doolittle Raid to the USS Hornet Museum, aiming to share the story of the Doolittle Raid and the subsequent rescue efforts with more US friends.