The Doolittle Raid was the subject of a Jeopardy! question last week. None of the contestants could guess the capital the Raiders bombed.
—” None of the contestants could guess the capital the Raiders bombed.”
That makes my heart sink.
That’s a shame; it was a real indication to the Japanese public that all was not as well as their government was telling them.
Yamamoto warned they’d have a short time to get into a bargaining position to encourage the US to end the war with a ceasefire; 6 months after Pearl Harbor they effectively lost the war at the battle of Midway. They could drag it out for a few years, but had no real hope of winning after June 1942 - they could kill Americans driving towards the home islands, but without any real hope of stopping them. Their victories on the Asian mainland were empty if they couldn’t stop the Americans’ progress through the Pacific, and they lost the war with millions of troops in Asia but no navy or air force left to defend Japan itself.
That was really dissapointing to me when nobody knew the answer. Also, I’m always amazed at simple Bible questions that never get answered.