[onedoug]

I've often wondered what would have been different had Doolittle's raiders concentrated exclusively on taking out the Emperor and had succeeded.

[tanknetter]

The Doolittle Raiders were explicitly prohibited from going after the Imperial Palace based on the British public’s response to Buckingham Palace being hit during the Blitz.

It’s a lesson the IRA failed to learn until AFTER they blew up Lord Mountbatten some 35 years later.