[DuncanWaring]

Where did Doolittle’s raid, which was prior to Midway, take off from?

They managed to take off from an aircraft carrier, and then crash-landed in China or the Sea of Japan.

That sort of thing doesn't scale-up well.

You have no idea what that attack involved, do you?

[Tublecane]

“That sort of thing doesn’t scale-up well.

You have no idea what that attack involved, do you?”

Do you have any idea what was involved with the Enola Gay? I’d call that scaling down, not up.

[Tublecane]

By the way, I fully understand the unreliability of and suicidal nature of extra-long-range PR stunts like the Doolittle raid. Certainly we wouldn’t have been eager to risk something as expensive and important as a nuke on such a run. But don’t pretend like Hiroshima and Nagasaki were like the massive campaigns against Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Tokyo, etc. We’re talking about a single bomb, here.