Doolittle Raid heaviest raids that preceded the Hiroshima and Nagasaki years
I wrote many books about the "Doolittle Raid", also known as the "Tokyo raid," it is one of the most violent strikes that rocked Tokyo, which was a prelude to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki. True that she did not yield to remember the Japanese losses, but the United States has tried marketing between soldiers strongly this process as a kind of psychological achieve victory, especially after the hard blow that destination across Japan Dick base Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But the force was lie in the type of weapon used by the United States.
There was a raid Tokyo after less than a year on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor base, led by Colonel "James Doolittle." This raid was a turning point for the Americans during World War II and the opportunity to review the military muscle, which paved the way for a nuclear attack.
The raid have been used rocket-propelled grenades my 25 Mitchell, which have not been tested in combat before. Each plane has carried four bombs each weighing 227 kg, it was dropped in an orderly fashion on military and industrial targets in Tokyo.
My -25 Mitchell
It has been selected seventeen group to perform the operation, which was concentrated in Oregon, and moved to South Carolina for processing for the task. My launchers used the raid -25 to drop bombs on Japan, has been supplying aircraft with cameras to record the results of the raid.
After the raid, he traveled bombers to China, and was suffering from a lack of fuel, and barely planes landed there after a 13 hour flight has suffered from landing difficulties after running out of fuel, has killed a number of crew members, also has another number of them, and shattered most of the aircraft. The Doolittle commander of the operation has dropped by parachute and landed on a pile of dung.
Local residents and gangs has worked and missionaries to provide assistance to American soldiers. Japan was angry after discovering that the Chinese coast was a blind spot in the defense plans, has attacked the Chinese cities that have provided assistance to American soldiers. It is said that the outcome of their attacks on China resulted in a nearly 200-thousand victims.
After Doolittle return to his country was honored with the medal of honor for his leadership process. But what you do not know many Americans that these raids on the strength and intensity and it embarrassed the weak Japanese defense where it came from surprise attacks and without warning, it was not her weight did not yield concrete results.
Were the families of eight of the bombers, three of whom were executed, while others were killed during the emergency landing of the aircraft. What I tried to do these raids is to raise the morale of the US military and smashing saying the Japanese army invincible. But one can say that the most important achievements of this raid is the boot of the attack on the largest Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
