3.+Doolittle’s+Raid

 Doolittle’s Raid:  In 1942 President Roosevelt pressed his military planners for a strike against Tokyo. The attack on Tokyo was intended as revenge for Pearl Harbor. (Shepherd) On April 18th, 1942 Lieutenant James Doolittle and his crew would take off alone and arrive over Tokyo at dust. (Shepherd) When they got there they would drop bombs and set fires to guide the bombers to their targets. Then James Doolittle and fifteen B-25s would launch just three hours after the first bombers. The plan was to leave the carrier deck of Hornet approach within 500 miles of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Kobe undetected and then instead of landing at Hornet they would fly southwest and land at an airfield of Chuchow with 20 minutes left of fuel. (Shepherd) When they took off it was around 8am and were 600 miles out. When they got there damage to the intended military targets was modest, and none of the of the planes reached the Chinese airfields. When all was said and done few of their crewmen survived and three of eight American airmen they had captured were executed. In the end the Pearl Harbor- style air read over Japan lifted America’s sunken spirits and at the same time it deeply embarrassed and dampered the spirits in Japan.      http://www.cv6.org/1942/doolittle/doolittle_2.htm

 Profile James Doolittle Birthday: December 14, 1896 Date of Incident: April 18, 1942 Interest: Flying planes General Info: aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and Army Air Forces general.

Works Cited <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Danzer A. Gerald, et al. __The Americans.__ Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell Inc, 2003 <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Shepherd, Joel. “The Doolittle Raid.” 2003. 20 October 2008. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><http://www.cv6.org/1942/doolittle/doolittle.htm.>. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942. 6 May 2001. 20 October 2008. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/misc-42/dooltl.htm. >.