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On April 18, 1942 Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle and crews bomb Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
Bombers from Shangri-La: The Doolittle Raid
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Thanks for reminding us SGT (Join to see) about the Doolittle Raid on Japan which was intended to show the Japanese and the USA that the attack on Pearl Harbor:
1. did not cripple our capability to retaliate against Japan.
2. demonstrated that medium bombers could be launched from an aircraft carrier
3. relied on the relationship with Nationalist China to rescue the pilots who only had enough fuel to attack Japan and then attempt to make it to China.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. CPL Dave Hoover SGT Mark Halmrast SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright
1. did not cripple our capability to retaliate against Japan.
2. demonstrated that medium bombers could be launched from an aircraft carrier
3. relied on the relationship with Nationalist China to rescue the pilots who only had enough fuel to attack Japan and then attempt to make it to China.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. CPL Dave Hoover SGT Mark Halmrast SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright
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Bombs made the difference in the,end. Too bad they wouldn't surrender before we had to go nuclear.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Unfortunately those bombs were absolutely the best of several really bad choices
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