When Intelligence Made a Difference – The Doolittle Raid (Guest Post)

Four months after the devastating air attack on Pearl Harbor the US struck back at Imperial Japan. On April, 18, 1942 sixteen B-25 Army Air Corps B-25 medium bombers, in the “first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago,” bombed targets in five cities – Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, and Kobe. The raid caught the Japanese by surprise and killed about 50 people and injured some 400.