Japanese targets for the Doolittle Raid included Tokyo , Yokohama , Kobe , Nagoya and Yokosuka .
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The Doolittle Raid is another name for the bombing of Tokyo on April 18, 1942. Eighty Army Air Corps men, lead by Jimmy Doolittle, took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet in sixteen B-25s on what was considered a suicide mission to bomb Tokyo and hopefully land in China. While nearly all of the men made it back, all but one of the planes crashed.
Higgins goes around telling rumors about Doolittle's life in Pygmalion. It was a attempt to try to turn people against Doolittle.
The first US bombings of Japan were in the spring of 1942 and were called the Doolittle Raid.Large scale bombing of Japan began in 1944 and became extremely intense in 1945 as long range B29 bombers were placed in easy range of Japan.Finally1945, August 6, atomic bomb on Hiroshima,1945, August 9, atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
The Doolittle raid proved the effectiveness of aircraft carriers
The raid was done by Colonel Jimmy Doolittle It was called the Doolittle Raid