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5 Dollars To the Heroes of the First Air Raid on Tokyo - Doolittle
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1986-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS $ 5 1992 JEPILPILIN KE EJUKAAN (Translation: Accomplishment Through Joint Effort) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942 was launched from USS Hornet roughly 650 miles off the Japanese coast — farther than planned, after the task force was spotted by a Japanese picket vessel. Every one of the sixteen B-25s was lost; none could reach the Chinese airfields with sufficient fuel. Three airmen died, eight were captured by Japanese forces, and of those eight, three were executed. The raid's physical damage to Tokyo was negligible. Its psychological effect on Japanese strategic planning was not.
The Marshall Islands issued dozens of commemorative five-dollar copper-nickel pieces through the early 1990s, most with no connection to the islands themselves.