After the Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 18, 1942, Army Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle crash-landed his airplane north of Quzhou, China, in friendly territory.

Where did Doolittle land in China?

The American pilot had just led an audacious raid over Tokyo and, with no place to land, parachuted along with his crew out of their crashing B-25 bomber. Now, Doolittle was up to his waist in human waste, having landed in a paddy full of fresh night soil in Lin'an County, in China's eastern province of Zhejiang.

How did Jimmy Doolittle get out of China?

As did most of the other crewmen who participated in the one-way mission, Doolittle and his crew bailed out safely over China when their B-25 ran out of fuel. By then, they had been flying for about 12 hours, it was nighttime, the weather was stormy, and Doolittle was unable to locate their landing field.