Posted on 04/21/2012 8:08:20 AM PDT by darkwing104
Seventy years ago this week sixteen Army Air Force B-25 Mitchells took off from the heaving deck of the Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Hornet. This was the first time in the Second World War that America took the fight to the enemy. The raiders who were led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, struck Japan in a demonstration ofAmerica’s determination to take the fight to Japan’s home soil. This raid was a morale booster for a nation that was still recovering from the attack onPearl Harbor.
The concept of launching medium bombers from a carrier was conceived by Navy Captain Francis Low. Once the idea was a “go” Lt. Col. Doolittle was selected to plan and lead the Army Air Force mission. The crews were recruited from B-25 crews from the 17th Bomb Group and were trained to take off from an Aircraft carrier at Eglin Field inFlorida. Being too large to land, the bombers only had to learn to take off from a carrier deck. The crews knew it was a one way mission and knew it was a “dangerous secret mission” but nothing more until they were a day out to sea.
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Chistianity = Christianity
My feelings about Japan are very complicated.
It is a fact that most Japanese today consider Japan a **VICTIM** of WW2.
I love Japan, but I reaaaaally reject that thinking.
I've had issues with you in the past but on this matter I couldn't agree more. Kudos to you for the courage to say it exactly the way I feel about it, for telling it like it is.
The poisonous snakes that sometimes come into my yard, have a cruel and savage culture. I don’t let them escape alive, just as many more of the Japanese should not have escaped their justice.
Revenge is the wrong answer for agression
Total destruction of an aggressor is the proper response , which is what the Japanese got. Their destruction was based on the question of likely aggressiveness in the future
See gulf war 1 as opposed to gulf war 2. Powell was weak. Should have gone to Baghdad the first time. Same with the Japs. Finished them off completely the first time. In total victory they have become a good ally
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