15 new American B-25 bombers are launching from aircraft carrier USS Hornet, in far Western Pacific. Their target: Tokyo.pic.twitter.com/LIlDcnXbJl
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"Doolittle raid" launches 10 hours ahead of schedule: a Japanese patrol boat spotted the US warships & radioed an alarm before being sunk:pic.twitter.com/bsfSjKmd3A
US bombs now falling on Japanese cities- "Doolittle raid" hits Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Kobe & Osaka:pic.twitter.com/0MJpsqlV9J
US is symbolically bombing tiny selection of military targets in the Greater Tokyo area, to show Japan's home islands are vulnerable to American power. Stray bombs have hit 6 schools & a hospital.
68 of 80 US aircrew from Doolittle raid have landed safe in China, abandoning their planes & hidden from Japanese soldiers by local resistance fighters.pic.twitter.com/cl4ksrlvpN
To plan a raid that, all things considered, would do little damage by Col. Doolittle. Surely, you’ve got to see the PR-risk... granted the value in terms of morale boost is real.
It doesn’t take anything away from their incredible heroism to also remember the Japanese subsequently carried out horrific reprisals against Chinese civilians
Many bombs actually carried medals; the Japanese had given them to US servicemen previously as a gesture of friendship that died out incredibly quickly after Pearl Harbor.
A return flight wouldn't have been possible anyway. You couldn't land the plane back of the carrier.
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