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Have you ever tried to launch 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers off the flight deck of the USS Hornet? Colonel James H. Doolittle did. On April 18 1942 he led those planes into an attack on four cities in Japan. This attack was known as the Doolittle Raid. Careful planning and execution were used to pull this raid off. Although the damage was minimal it gave the US it's pride back. In January of 1942 Admiral Ernest J. King and Air Forces leader General Henry H. Arnold were told about the idea of the raid. They assigned Doolittle and Captain Duncan to command the raid. Known only as the "Tokyo Project" Doolittle and Duncan gathered volunteer aircrews for an unknown mission (Naval Historical Center, Internet). In all 80 men were chosen (Joyce, Internet). Doolittle and his crew started on the long and hard special training and modifications for their normally land based planes, to make them fit for the carrier (Goldberg, 52). The raid was going to be made at low-level flight so the retractable ventral turret was removed for the mission, saving about 600 pounds. More gas was given to the plane giving it a total of 1141 gallons. Each plane was also given four 500-pound bombs. To fool any Japanese
fighter planes, a pair of "dummy guns", actually wooden sticks painted black, were put on the back of the plane. One plane actually made it to Vladivostock and its crew was put in jail. Haley's flagship enterprise, which would provide protection to the bombers in the air while they approached the land (Naval Historical Center, Internet). While in flight the planes got some anti-aircraft (AA) fire from the ground. At first Doolittle thought that his men had died for nothing and he told his surviving crew that the mission had failed. The plan was to get the carrier to 400 miles off the shore of Japan and launch the attack from there, hitting four different cities. 182,400 men on both sides of the land battle lost their lives (Battle of the Bulge, Internet). After the planes bombed the Japanese homeland it showed the Japanese that they were very at risk of the bomber attacks (Pettypiece, Internet).
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