High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Ruptured Duck" was the nickname of a World War II North American Aviation B-25B Mitchell medium bomber (S/N 40-2261) piloted by Lt. Ted W. Lawson of the 95th Bombardment Squadron, USAAF. The aircraft was one of sixteen B-25B`s which participated in the Doolittle Raid on Japan commanded by Lieutenant Colonel (later General) Jimmy Doolittle. After bombing Tokyo on April 18, 1942, Lawson ditched "The Ruptured Duck" in the sea near Shangchow, China due to being unable to find a landing field on the mainland because of rain and darkness. A different B-25 is on display at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor in the colors and livery of "The Ruptured Duck" (another B-25B, painted and marked as Doolittle`s aircraft, is on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton, Ohio).