I still can not hardly believe they got those bombers off that carrier the way they did. Loaded to the hilt.
I dont care if they were into the wind or whatever.
Full flaps and all the juice they could get out of those engines.
They stripped the planes pretty bare. The weather gave them a Hugh headwind to get up and they still ran out off fuel trying to make China. It was a free country under The people that fled to Taiwan when the communists took over. The American volunteer Group( AVG, Chennault’s Flying Tigers) we’re fighting Japan for Chang. Most of Doolttle’s raiders didn’t get to the air bases. It’s a hell of a story. Great men all.