[llevrok]

Thank you for posting this!

I’ve said this before of LtC Doolittle’s raiders - there were so many courageous acts in WW2 (of which my own Dad fought).

But few were as audacious as this one. We let the Japanese know they were indeed touchable.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A book just out, titled “Target Tokyo,” reviewed in today's WSJ, suggests the primary accomplishment of the raid was to convince the Japanese that what remained of the American fleet had to be destroyed, and quickly.

Thus, the battle of Midway only a few months after the Tokyo raid. We know how that turned out...

The more direct result of the bombing was a pin prick to Japanese industry while resulting in the slaughter of thousands of Chinese who were rounded up and executed for helping the American pilots make their way to safety. The majority of these Chinese had no connection to this final chapter. It's reminiscent of the Nazi's slaughter of an entire Czech village after the assassination of a prominent German general...