IIRC, the theme of the movie “Midway” was that the Doolittle Raid spooked the Japanese high command into prematurely sending in their fleet to score a knockout against the U.S. aircraft carriers, instead of consolidating their holdings in the Pacific.
Will never forgive the Japs for executing those captured Doolittle crewmen who were merely doing their jobs.
In fairness to the Japanese, they expected the same treatment to be meted out to them; they were shocked that we even bothered to hold trials for their leaders, and that everyone else was basically given a pass. As bad as their treatment of our prisoners was, their treatment of civilians on the Asian mainland was much worse.