[tanknetter]

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...

Yeah, that the Doolittle Raid changed Japanese thinking on what they needed to do to take out the US carriers is pretty well-known fact. Covered pretty well in the opening scenes of Tora Tora Tora.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It was an unintended carom shot for the raiders.