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Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led 16 bombers on a bombing raid through Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
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The raid was done by Colonel Jimmy Doolittle It was called the Doolittle Raid
The leader was Colonel Jimmy Doolittle.
Colonel Doolitle did that. When he returned from China after the raid he was promoted and became very famous. The raid was named after him. It was called the Doolittle Raid.
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The Doolittle Raid was a bombing mission that was led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle. The raid took place on April 18th, 1942 as specially modified B-25 "Mitchell" medium bombers took off from the USS Hornet in the western Pacific Ocean. The target of the raid was Tokyo, Japan. The raid is significant in that it was a powerful Propaganda tool for the United States to bolster morale amongst its civilian and military populations.
He was the Colonel who led and flew the first mission to bomb Japan in World War 2. They were very successful with their mission. He became famous and the raid on Japan became known as Doolittle's Raid. It was a raid that was not without problems but he did earn a promotion!
Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle
I think you must mean General (then Colonel) James Doolittle. The "Doolittle Raiders" were sixteen medium bombers, B-25s, launched from an aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet. These were army bombers, much heavier than navy planes, and not intended to take off from a carrier. Carriers at the time did not have catapults to sling airplanes off the deck. The wings of these bombers did not fold like naval planes did, so only sixteen could be fitted on the deck, and none could be gotten down onto the hanger deck. Because the Hornet's deck was covered with these bombers she would be unable to operate her normal naval planes, and so had to be escorted by another carrier, the USS Enterprise. The US had only three aircraft carriers in the Pacific at the time so hazarding two of them on this mission was quite a risk to run. The mission is fairly well portrayed in the recent "Pearl Harbor" movie and was the subject of a much older, black-and-white film, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".The mission was on April 18, 1942. Little real damage was done to the four Japanese cities bombed, but the psychological effect was enormous, depressing the Japanese and giving a huge boost to American morale, only 4 1/2 months after Pearl Harbor. Colonel Doolittle went on to an illustrious career during the war, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for the raid on Japan.
The cast of Pygmalion - 1948 includes: Gordon Harker as Alfred Doolittle Margaret Lockwood as Eliza Doolittle Ralph Michael as Professor Henry Higgins Arthur Wontner as Colonel Pickering
The first raid on Tokyo, the Doolittle Raid of 18 April 1942, was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAAF. It acted as a U.S. retaliation after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.