I saw a Hollywood movie last night that included the Doolittle raids. It was very short on the preparation but very long on the damage done to Tokyo. Massive explosions that are unlikely to have occurred given the limited physical damage the raid accomplished.
The rest of it had to do with a Chinese girl involved in getting the pilot home, or something. I turned it off after the raid. The music in the background told me the ‘guy’ movie was over.
Shame. I have always loved “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”, not only because it was one of the first books I ever checked out of a library when I got my first library card, but because I am an aviation nut, and to see all that great footage of B-25’s from a time when they still had great numbers of them flying, is a real treat.
But you can almost always trust Hollywood to screw up a story, and I don’t doubt it. I have had more than a passing interest over the years in the plight of the USS Indianapolis, and there was a movie that came out “Men of Honor” that was supposed to be about the ship, but...it was so Hollywoodized I couldn’t even get through 15 min of it, so I know what you mean.