Had the Axis won the war the Italians would be learning of the "crucial importance" of Italian participation in the Battle of Britain (they flew a few insignificant raids, filming the whole thing so they could boast about bombing Britain).
By far the most overrated military action in history, courtesy of US propaganda (including the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!). To say that the battle of Midway resulted from this raid is just as saying that the Germans disastrously marched on Moscow because of a few early Soviet bombing raids on Berlin (which btw few of the guys posting comments here ever heard of becaause they are not an interesting subject to US propaganda you are being showered with).
@VersusARCH Maybe this raid had some consequence on Midway but the US losses in machines, men and resources were greater and therefore it can only be seen as a military defeat. This planes would have been better deployed elsewhere.
As for the Soviet bombing raids on Berlin, the payloads were tiny and there was only a couple of raids also put on for propaganda - and I doubt many believed they had taken place at all (including people in Berlin).
Read your history the mental stautus of the enemy can help you win or lose a war. This was used to prove to the japanese that we could hit their homeland too. Now had our carriers been in pearl when they attacked this may never had happened.
@gtofan2005 What history books would you suggest reading? Everyone seems to believe that they can break the enemy's will to fight and no-one seems to succeed. In any case it takes much more than a few bombs causing light damage.
GREAT footage & a SUPERB YouTube clip, n1014f ! Many congrats ! You got it 100% RIGHT, friend. HAIL EVERMORE to the Doolittle Raiders ! Re the footage .. newcomers to the history can glimpse GREAT shots of Capt Marc A Mitscher, the Hornet's reknowned Capt .. walking the carrier's deck in company with the great Jimmy Doolittle. Two fabulous Fliers in US Military History. "Mitscher The Magnificent" .. who later as Vice-Admiral commanded the US Navy Carrier Fleet .. & led the way to victory.
DC knew that the Japanese high command had boasted on radio & elsewhere that bombs would NEVER drop on Tokyo.
It was a successful propaganda & pamphlet raid that shamed the Japanese high command who forced Yamamoto into the Midway plan that he did not want. Midway was needed to buy more time to build our forces from the GOP-funded skeleton force (1937 austerity plan).
DC knew that the Japanese high command had boasted on radio & elsewhere, that bombs would NEVER drop on Tokyo.
It was a successful propaganda & pamphlet raid that shamed the Japanese high command who forced Yamamoto into the Midway plan that he did not want. Midway was needed to buy more time to build our forces from the GOP-funded skeleton force (1937 austerity plan).
@alanheath It is sad that many cannot find the time to research subjects of which they know not before commenting. The affect of the raid on the Japanese high command was profound and it led to the Battle of Midway ... yes, the raid did boost morale ... a badly needed boost ... akin to the boost that the BOB Boys gave to the UK and the world in 1940 ... morale is key to any victory ... You commented on a complex subject ...
@n1014f In my opinion this was completely pointless, it may have encouraged the Japanese high command to have a crack at Midway but that was incidental. I don't suppose it did much for the pilots who flew there - much less those who were captured.
As for my knowledge, I am sure you know far more than I do.
@alanheath What makes you think it was pointless? Of course they knew it had no tactical purpose. It was purely psychological. One surprise attack in exchange for another. We were facing a war that in April 1942 we were not prepared to fight or win. After months of defeats the nation desperately needed a victory to inspire it to fight. That's what it was about.
@Turnback It was a pointless waste of men's lives and machines for no gain. This was not a victory in a military sense, only the propaganda could make it out as such.
@alanheath : oh Alan, poor Alan. You seem not to have much of any appreciation of WW2 History at all, nor of the human-behavioural / psychological .. + political .. aspects of WW2. There are multiple publications now available which cover this milestone event wonderfully well. This raid was one of the bravest + most effective, successful of the Pacific War. Its impact on the Japs led DIRECTLY, subsequently step-by-step, to their deserved mass-defeat at MIDWAY, only several months later.
@colindominy Well, I am sure you know far more about WW2 than I do - not to mention the political aspects of the war. I am sure you have also done far more research than I have and have also posted far more films on the subject than I have on you tube.
@alanheath : I'm an ex-university academic, & have published more than my share of research via that avenue. But it's an in-depth understanding of the topic of writing / commentary which is more important. Anyone with a friendly editor / publisher can play all kinds of games. But there's no substitute for genuine understanding.
@alanheath The Japanese were proud that they thought we could not touch them. The raid proved we could fly to japan and bomb it, lowering the morale of the Japanese government.
@rprince418 Do not believe that dropping a few bombs on someone is going to lower morale. Many have believed that in the past and it does not work. Neither the bombing of the UK or of Germany weakened morale.
Last year, I had the tremendous honor of meeting two of these men in Reno, inluding Jimmy Doolitle's co-pilot during the raid. It was one of the most humbling experiences I've ever known. Those brave men are living legends, but that had such humility and grace. God bless those men- they represent the very best of our finest genertation!
YES Doolittle and his men are heros.But how about those poor Chinese that saves them from captured by the Japs. Many of them paid with their lives. History stated that Japs massacred many innocent people when they were searching for the America airmen. Please give those brave souls some credits. Without their sacrifices . Many airmen were not able to make home. Those were my heros.
@puntarm Ok well you lead a fleet of planes like that, live, and see how much you boast . . . I'd bet you'd take a guy's eye out that said that to you
Quite an audacious raid at that time. I thought about it last week when I was in Tokyo and then on to Beijing on business-the Japanese never guessed the Pandora's Box they openned at Pearl Harbor.
All of General Doolittle's medals are on public display at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington DC. Do not miss it. Thank you The Greatest Generation.
though youd be better off just watching a 1/2 hour documenterie on the military history chanle, it really is amazing, they also have first hand acounts of it
@MuGeNTOM ..in the book, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, one of the crewmembers is reported to have said that what worried him most was that he didn't know where he was going to sleep that night.
This wasn't all that long ago.. it was in our lifetime; our generation- I'm planning to write a book about Japan VS The US... Not sure of the title yet- but, a book is in the making.
These metals were those tokens of supposed peace Japan sought to deceive the US with- They spoke of peace and planned war- That's why they placed the metals on the bombs...
@TEMPLE7D ..They practiced short takeoffs in hidden fields in Florida; the carrier went full balls into the wind to give them the best chance and what encouraged the rest was that Doolittle took off with 100 feet to spare. The Navy made each aircraft take off from Doolittle's spot because they didn't want any aircraft skidding off into the island..there was only a few feet to spare on that side.
Before becoming Prime minister of UK, Neville Chamberlain's other office had been as Lord Mayor of Manchester , Churchill later said of him "Well he was a decent fellow , But I am afraid he viewed the world through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe "
@TEMPLE7D ..best lift that way. The Ruptured Duck's pilot (piloted by the man who wrote "30 Seconds Over Toyko") forgot to put his flaps down prior to takeoff and made it into the air anyway. He didn't realize his mistake until immediately after takeoff, he went to retract the flaps and found them already up. I think his name was Lawson..originally from Fresno, California.
God Bless Jimmy Doolittle he saved and raised our hearts and spirits for reveng and showed the world that we were not weaklings nore playboys. He were Heros and I look up to Roosevelt as our father who led us the way to Victory and Peace. he saved the world.
Churchill was a hack. He got sacked from the Admiralty in WWI for the disasterous Dardenelles campaign, then made the same mistake in Greece in WWII. Also screwed up in Norway and N Africa. Other than the Battle of Britain, he had no lasting tactical success until after we joined the war and bailed him out. Just two months after Germany fell, the Brits replaced him with Attlee in a landslide.
lol. he had liberal thinking which was not conservative also a European Conservative is not like the ones you know in the U.S. some are but most are not.
also Chamberlins political back ground was more Liberal then conservative
Except for his policy to appease Hitler, Chamberlin did a decent job for Britain, especially modernizing her industries in the middle of the Depression so that when war came Britain had the latest technology in their plants. Most of the criticism for appeasing Hitler came after Hitler violated the agreement, and Nev was adamantly clear that any move on Poland meant war. His resignation probably had more to do with his poor health. Cancer killed him a few months later.
The ACLU has never hinted or suggested that Doolittle was a war criminal. My late father was a tail gunner on a B25J in the Pacific, won a bronze star for shooting down two Zekes, and was a leftwing, liberal American all his life. If you believe only right wing conservatives are patriots willing to fight/die for their country, you are sadly mistaken.
I disagree: most liberals do not hate America, they hate wars based on lies, wars fought w/o a congressional declaration of war as required by the constitution, and wars fought under the guise of "defense" when the US was/is under no real threat.
WW2 was an unavoidable war we had to fight, but most wars since have not.
I know enough history to know that most wars we've fought have been undeclared, which is a Constitutional cop-out on the part of Presidents & Congress alike. And while Congress didn't declare war, the Barbary States DID declare war on us. Oh, and the Congress also approved funding at the time to create the Marines & to expand the Navy for the expressed purpose of fighting the Barbary Pirates. Turns out they needed Congressional approval after all. It's called civilian control of the military.
um no lol. the President does not need Congressional permission to use the U.S Marines, if the Marines are in a area after 90 days then the president must tell congress why he is doing it.
Now for the Navy yes. he needs Congressional approval. but if there just transporting Marines then no.
for use of the Army the president needs Congressional approval, also for the USCG he does not need Congress say at all.
No military branch needs Congressional or Presidential approval if they're attacked, eg the Army pilots who rose in defense of Oahu on 7Dec41. Nor does the President need Congressional approval to launch a nuclear counterstrike if enemy missles are inbound. No time. Defense in the moment has never been in question. What drifts over the line into war crimes are extended wars based on lies, e.g. Vietnam and Iraq, where we were not attacked nor in danger, and no declaration was ever made.
well FDR didn't want to get into a war neither did most ppl back then. but when Japs attacked they all voted for war, except the retarded ultra liberal Jeanette Rankin, man was she dumb lol. hell she voted against WW1 and WW2
FDR made his decisions based on US polls. In 1940 he ran for 3rd term saying he'd stay out of war because polls showed that was the majority opinion. He didn't embargo oil to Japan fully until Jul41 when, after Tokyo invaded French Indochina, polls showed more than 50% in favor of war for the first time. Even then he waited, buying time while we re-armed & forcing the Axis to strike first, which was the proper thing to do. German sinking of Reuben James wasn't enough, of course, but Pearl was.
Just some factual points, the take off was possible only because the carrier was making 20 knots into a 30 knot wind, which meant these aircraft already had a 50 knot airspeed before commencing their take off run. Still a very marginal take off.
Those men were the bravest men who ever lived. They KNEW if they were downed over Japan they faced extreme torture and probable death. Hats off to you guys!! from an old man...
Actually, some of them WERE captured by Japanese forces, just not in Japan. Because they were discovered and had to leave early, none of them had enough fuel to make it to their planed landing sites in China and they were forced to ditch in the ocean, bail out and/or crash land in parts of China that Japan controlled. Many of them were helped to escape by friendly Chinese (who were risking their own lives doing so) but some of them WERE captured.
Jimmy Doolittle is my Grandpa's cousin. The cool thing is, we have some of his money and my family's last name is Doolittle! We have personal photos of him, too. I never got to meet him because he died before I was born, but my dad did. And all the men on my Doolittle side of the family are in the army. (my daddy.) Jimmy was an awesome guy- I'm so proud of cousin Jimmy!!!
hey dude!!! your related to me if u aint lying!!! Jimmy oolittle is also related to me, I dont know how ut my dad said he is like 2 years ago, I'll ask him when he gets back from las vegas :-). And dude is your last name Coleman? jw caus i might now u lol
*BRAVE* is a word almost inadequate to describe these men. These flyers each possessed a pair of nuts that most guys nowadays can only dream of. It's a moot point anyway, cuz in fact most guys nowadays have had their nuts removed by their local feminazis. Even though this raid didn't inflict much physical damage, it nevertheless gave the Japs a little bitch-slappin' taste of what was to come a few years later. The smart ones, like Adm. Yamamoto, paid strict attention.
Thank you for posting this. If I had a copy of the original video, I think I could improve the quality somewhat. I have a very good video editor (Sony Vegas 6.0d) that can sometimes do good stuff with old video.
Although a small raid with limited damage it had far reaching effect in Japanese Naval Thinking especially Admiral Yamamoto. The Japanese decided to except Admiral Yamamoto's plan for the Midway Operation and the rest you know is History. From a Baby Boomer God Bless You General Doolittle.
Had the Axis won the war the Italians would be learning of the "crucial importance" of Italian participation in the Battle of Britain (they flew a few insignificant raids, filming the whole thing so they could boast about bombing Britain).
VersusARCH 5 months ago
By far the most overrated military action in history, courtesy of US propaganda (including the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!). To say that the battle of Midway resulted from this raid is just as saying that the Germans disastrously marched on Moscow because of a few early Soviet bombing raids on Berlin (which btw few of the guys posting comments here ever heard of becaause they are not an interesting subject to US propaganda you are being showered with).
VersusARCH 5 months ago
@VersusARCH Maybe this raid had some consequence on Midway but the US losses in machines, men and resources were greater and therefore it can only be seen as a military defeat. This planes would have been better deployed elsewhere.
As for the Soviet bombing raids on Berlin, the payloads were tiny and there was only a couple of raids also put on for propaganda - and I doubt many believed they had taken place at all (including people in Berlin).
alanheath 3 months ago
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VersusARCH 5 months ago
Read your history the mental stautus of the enemy can help you win or lose a war. This was used to prove to the japanese that we could hit their homeland too. Now had our carriers been in pearl when they attacked this may never had happened.
gtofan2005 6 months ago
@gtofan2005 What history books would you suggest reading? Everyone seems to believe that they can break the enemy's will to fight and no-one seems to succeed. In any case it takes much more than a few bombs causing light damage.
alanheath 3 months ago
@alanheath read lightning strike it covers both the japanese and american side leading up to the death of yamaoto. also flyboys is a good one.
gtofan2005 3 months ago
GREAT footage & a SUPERB YouTube clip, n1014f ! Many congrats ! You got it 100% RIGHT, friend. HAIL EVERMORE to the Doolittle Raiders ! Re the footage .. newcomers to the history can glimpse GREAT shots of Capt Marc A Mitscher, the Hornet's reknowned Capt .. walking the carrier's deck in company with the great Jimmy Doolittle. Two fabulous Fliers in US Military History. "Mitscher The Magnificent" .. who later as Vice-Admiral commanded the US Navy Carrier Fleet .. & led the way to victory.
colindominy 7 months ago
DC knew that the Japanese high command had boasted on radio & elsewhere that bombs would NEVER drop on Tokyo.
It was a successful propaganda & pamphlet raid that shamed the Japanese high command who forced Yamamoto into the Midway plan that he did not want. Midway was needed to buy more time to build our forces from the GOP-funded skeleton force (1937 austerity plan).
82Echo411 7 months ago
DC knew that the Japanese high command had boasted on radio & elsewhere, that bombs would NEVER drop on Tokyo.
It was a successful propaganda & pamphlet raid that shamed the Japanese high command who forced Yamamoto into the Midway plan that he did not want. Midway was needed to buy more time to build our forces from the GOP-funded skeleton force (1937 austerity plan).
82Echo411 7 months ago
my gamertag is named after this Mission d00raid for xbox live
d00raid 8 months ago
I still cannot see the point of this raid. It was for morale only - it had no military effect whatsoever. What a waste of men and machines!
alanheath 8 months ago
@alanheath It is sad that many cannot find the time to research subjects of which they know not before commenting. The affect of the raid on the Japanese high command was profound and it led to the Battle of Midway ... yes, the raid did boost morale ... a badly needed boost ... akin to the boost that the BOB Boys gave to the UK and the world in 1940 ... morale is key to any victory ... You commented on a complex subject ...
n1014f 8 months ago 3
@n1014f In my opinion this was completely pointless, it may have encouraged the Japanese high command to have a crack at Midway but that was incidental. I don't suppose it did much for the pilots who flew there - much less those who were captured.
As for my knowledge, I am sure you know far more than I do.
alanheath 7 months ago
@alanheath What makes you think it was pointless? Of course they knew it had no tactical purpose. It was purely psychological. One surprise attack in exchange for another. We were facing a war that in April 1942 we were not prepared to fight or win. After months of defeats the nation desperately needed a victory to inspire it to fight. That's what it was about.
Turnback 7 months ago
@Turnback It was a pointless waste of men's lives and machines for no gain. This was not a victory in a military sense, only the propaganda could make it out as such.
alanheath 7 months ago
@alanheath : oh Alan, poor Alan. You seem not to have much of any appreciation of WW2 History at all, nor of the human-behavioural / psychological .. + political .. aspects of WW2. There are multiple publications now available which cover this milestone event wonderfully well. This raid was one of the bravest + most effective, successful of the Pacific War. Its impact on the Japs led DIRECTLY, subsequently step-by-step, to their deserved mass-defeat at MIDWAY, only several months later.
colindominy 7 months ago
@colindominy Well, I am sure you know far more about WW2 than I do - not to mention the political aspects of the war. I am sure you have also done far more research than I have and have also posted far more films on the subject than I have on you tube.
alanheath 7 months ago
@colindominy I may not have much appreciation of WW2 history but something tells me that I have published more on it than you have.
alanheath 3 months ago
@alanheath : I'm an ex-university academic, & have published more than my share of research via that avenue. But it's an in-depth understanding of the topic of writing / commentary which is more important. Anyone with a friendly editor / publisher can play all kinds of games. But there's no substitute for genuine understanding.
colindominy 3 months ago
@alanheath The Japanese were proud that they thought we could not touch them. The raid proved we could fly to japan and bomb it, lowering the morale of the Japanese government.
rprince418 3 months ago
@rprince418 Do not believe that dropping a few bombs on someone is going to lower morale. Many have believed that in the past and it does not work. Neither the bombing of the UK or of Germany weakened morale.
alanheath 3 months ago
These boys were truly american heroes. Imagine taking off of a navy carrier using an army bomber.
Bantha121 9 months ago
thirty seconds over tokyo was an amazing book
willis636 10 months ago
@weswmilton fuck off bastard
Warguy1941 10 months ago
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@Warguy1941
same to you... idiot
Puerile small minded buffoon !!!
weswmilton 10 months ago
Last year, I had the tremendous honor of meeting two of these men in Reno, inluding Jimmy Doolitle's co-pilot during the raid. It was one of the most humbling experiences I've ever known. Those brave men are living legends, but that had such humility and grace. God bless those men- they represent the very best of our finest genertation!
DonTheCritic 11 months ago
should drop 50mt bomb and i'll be happy..50 dead, 400 injured is way to small..
SchneiderVesperine 1 year ago
YES Doolittle and his men are heros.But how about those poor Chinese that saves them from captured by the Japs. Many of them paid with their lives. History stated that Japs massacred many innocent people when they were searching for the America airmen. Please give those brave souls some credits. Without their sacrifices . Many airmen were not able to make home. Those were my heros.
chinaboy1020 1 year ago 3
THAT WAS A MESSGE TO JAPAN AT THE TIME YOU REACH OUT AND HURT US YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR DEMONIS CRIME. BOMBS AWAY!
TheRapper10000 1 year ago
Ask Mr Suzuki for my Doolittle Letter, He also has a medal for you from me. it is even your favorite color, and has my favorite colors too.
Enjoy SSC.
yourgodwillbowtous 1 year ago
Right One - AND CORRECT - HEROES - You Rock Brother
bobbycv64 1 year ago
It was only a propaganda victory
puntarm 1 year ago
@puntarm Ok well you lead a fleet of planes like that, live, and see how much you boast . . . I'd bet you'd take a guy's eye out that said that to you
DogsRuleForReal 1 year ago
@puntarm Hardly. Propaganda is the use of words to influence ones opinion. THis was a mission that changed the war. Duh.
spaguru 11 months ago
the Japanese did awaken a sleeping giant
timswift2 1 year ago
Quite an audacious raid at that time. I thought about it last week when I was in Tokyo and then on to Beijing on business-the Japanese never guessed the Pandora's Box they openned at Pearl Harbor.
Sodnal 1 year ago
All of General Doolittle's medals are on public display at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington DC. Do not miss it. Thank you The Greatest Generation.
600joe 1 year ago
usa ftw. you have to wonder what the japs thought when they saw american bombers over their capitol.
Oldnavy360 1 year ago
These men were all volunteers for this mission. Peace thru superior firepower.
YTdawn 1 year ago
WHATS the name of the movie made about this ?
shane71880 2 years ago
@shane71880
"60 seconds over tokyo." it's really good.
motivatedsoda 1 year ago
whoops, my bad
"30 seconds over tokyo"
motivatedsoda 1 year ago
@shane71880
Pearl Harbor
though youd be better off just watching a 1/2 hour documenterie on the military history chanle, it really is amazing, they also have first hand acounts of it
swsmbc 1 year ago
One word: Heroes
MuGeNTOM 2 years ago 6
@MuGeNTOM ..in the book, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, one of the crewmembers is reported to have said that what worried him most was that he didn't know where he was going to sleep that night.
fernfeyes 2 years ago
@MuGeNTOM Right On Brother.
I was a Sailor 77-81, US ARMY RULES on this. They are all HEROES.
bobbycv64 1 year ago
Do you think President Obama knows who General Doolittle is? I don't.......that's sad, and scary
SuperThunderlips 2 years ago 3
@SuperThunderlips he was a Col
shane71880 2 years ago
@shane71880
He ended his career as a general smartass....
SuperThunderlips 2 years ago
lol I know that he was promoted 2 ranks after the raid
shane71880 2 years ago
This wasn't all that long ago.. it was in our lifetime; our generation- I'm planning to write a book about Japan VS The US... Not sure of the title yet- but, a book is in the making.
VictoriaGreyh 2 years ago
These metals were those tokens of supposed peace Japan sought to deceive the US with- They spoke of peace and planned war- That's why they placed the metals on the bombs...
VictoriaGreyh 2 years ago
the ship must of been going fast for those planes to tak off like that
TEMPLE7D 2 years ago
@TEMPLE7D ..They practiced short takeoffs in hidden fields in Florida; the carrier went full balls into the wind to give them the best chance and what encouraged the rest was that Doolittle took off with 100 feet to spare. The Navy made each aircraft take off from Doolittle's spot because they didn't want any aircraft skidding off into the island..there was only a few feet to spare on that side.
fernfeyes 2 years ago
Before becoming Prime minister of UK, Neville Chamberlain's other office had been as Lord Mayor of Manchester , Churchill later said of him "Well he was a decent fellow , But I am afraid he viewed the world through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe "
stormywindmill 2 years ago
why was the flaps down on those planes
TEMPLE7D 2 years ago
@TEMPLE7D to give them more lift
quickshark123 2 years ago
@TEMPLE7D ..best lift that way. The Ruptured Duck's pilot (piloted by the man who wrote "30 Seconds Over Toyko") forgot to put his flaps down prior to takeoff and made it into the air anyway. He didn't realize his mistake until immediately after takeoff, he went to retract the flaps and found them already up. I think his name was Lawson..originally from Fresno, California.
fernfeyes 2 years ago
BIg nation....big hero...EEUU life in peace
Pestanita82 2 years ago 2
yea god bless jimmy and F.D.R there both great heroes!!!!
R.I.P
P3ARLH4RBOR 2 years ago
God Bless Jimmy Doolittle he saved and raised our hearts and spirits for reveng and showed the world that we were not weaklings nore playboys. He were Heros and I look up to Roosevelt as our father who led us the way to Victory and Peace. he saved the world.
Togeita 2 years ago 16
Roosvelt, the guy who led to the WAR .
spanish111japan 1 year ago
@Togeita
250,000 Chinese paid for their lives for this moral boosting campaign.
weswmilton 1 year ago
@weswmilton really ?
250,000 was small for Chinese population
thetrialshot 11 months ago
@thetrialshot
Yes, really! What do you mean 250,000 was small ?
weswmilton 11 months ago
@weswmilton retard
250,000 lives was too small compare to Chinese population hahaha
thetrialshot 11 months ago
@thetrialshot you are callous and insensitive. Please crawl back to your hole. Imbecile !!!!!
weswmilton 11 months ago
@weswmilton i would consider "callous and insensitive" a compliment, people are too damn nice these days.
londean111 10 months ago
@londean111
You have a good day.
weswmilton 10 months ago
@Togeita I think there are many people in Central Europe who do not look up to Roosevelt - but I take your point!
alanheath 8 months ago
Churchill was a hack. He got sacked from the Admiralty in WWI for the disasterous Dardenelles campaign, then made the same mistake in Greece in WWII. Also screwed up in Norway and N Africa. Other than the Battle of Britain, he had no lasting tactical success until after we joined the war and bailed him out. Just two months after Germany fell, the Brits replaced him with Attlee in a landslide.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
Politics and liberal minded ppl get more ppl killed then wars ever do.
best lib of all time was Chamberlin of Britain
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
Chamberlin was the Conservative PM of Britain. He was no liberal.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
lol. he had liberal thinking which was not conservative also a European Conservative is not like the ones you know in the U.S. some are but most are not.
also Chamberlins political back ground was more Liberal then conservative
Now Church Hill that's a Conservative
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
Except for his policy to appease Hitler, Chamberlin did a decent job for Britain, especially modernizing her industries in the middle of the Depression so that when war came Britain had the latest technology in their plants. Most of the criticism for appeasing Hitler came after Hitler violated the agreement, and Nev was adamantly clear that any move on Poland meant war. His resignation probably had more to do with his poor health. Cancer killed him a few months later.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
The ACLU has never hinted or suggested that Doolittle was a war criminal. My late father was a tail gunner on a B25J in the Pacific, won a bronze star for shooting down two Zekes, and was a leftwing, liberal American all his life. If you believe only right wing conservatives are patriots willing to fight/die for their country, you are sadly mistaken.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
How the hell could any one call Doolittle a war criminal!?!?! all he did was carry out a order and a plan, to do what the Japs did at pearl harbor.
I know not all Liberal type ppl are not american hating ppl but a good majority are.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
I disagree: most liberals do not hate America, they hate wars based on lies, wars fought w/o a congressional declaration of war as required by the constitution, and wars fought under the guise of "defense" when the US was/is under no real threat.
WW2 was an unavoidable war we had to fight, but most wars since have not.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
lol. longlakeshore you don't nkow history that much do you?
Quasi-War
Barbary Wars
there is a lot more wars that happened with out declrations of war
many happened when the founding fathers where still alive.
hell the U.S Marines where created for that reason they don't need congress to say ok for them to go and fight
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
I know enough history to know that most wars we've fought have been undeclared, which is a Constitutional cop-out on the part of Presidents & Congress alike. And while Congress didn't declare war, the Barbary States DID declare war on us. Oh, and the Congress also approved funding at the time to create the Marines & to expand the Navy for the expressed purpose of fighting the Barbary Pirates. Turns out they needed Congressional approval after all. It's called civilian control of the military.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
um no lol. the President does not need Congressional permission to use the U.S Marines, if the Marines are in a area after 90 days then the president must tell congress why he is doing it.
Now for the Navy yes. he needs Congressional approval. but if there just transporting Marines then no.
for use of the Army the president needs Congressional approval, also for the USCG he does not need Congress say at all.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
No military branch needs Congressional or Presidential approval if they're attacked, eg the Army pilots who rose in defense of Oahu on 7Dec41. Nor does the President need Congressional approval to launch a nuclear counterstrike if enemy missles are inbound. No time. Defense in the moment has never been in question. What drifts over the line into war crimes are extended wars based on lies, e.g. Vietnam and Iraq, where we were not attacked nor in danger, and no declaration was ever made.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
keep in mind the U.S was already fighting WW2 before Pearl harbor. Fly Tigers, Sinking of German U-Boats in mid 1941 etc.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
Exactly, but it was conservative Republicans who most criticized FDR for getting involved!
longlakeshore 2 years ago
well FDR didn't want to get into a war neither did most ppl back then. but when Japs attacked they all voted for war, except the retarded ultra liberal Jeanette Rankin, man was she dumb lol. hell she voted against WW1 and WW2
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago 2
FDR made his decisions based on US polls. In 1940 he ran for 3rd term saying he'd stay out of war because polls showed that was the majority opinion. He didn't embargo oil to Japan fully until Jul41 when, after Tokyo invaded French Indochina, polls showed more than 50% in favor of war for the first time. Even then he waited, buying time while we re-armed & forcing the Axis to strike first, which was the proper thing to do. German sinking of Reuben James wasn't enough, of course, but Pearl was.
longlakeshore 2 years ago
polls....lol. Wilson ran on "He Kept us at of war" a few months later Troops were fighting in France.
Axis strike first the Japs attacked a U.S war ship in 1938 but at least they said sorry and payed for the damage.
and for Indochina the japs walked in.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
Today,leftwing,liberal americans[a.c.l.u,jewish groups etc] would want to indict doolitle for war crimes.Shameful.
scorzeny45 2 years ago
jewish groups? u sound like a nazi...
AnthraxByEmail 2 years ago
Jeder Klapps ein Japs!
bolshevikML 2 years ago
I have a model of the very B-25 that Dolittle flew on this mission and I must say he must have been damn proud to have flown in that plane.
metallicastarwarsfan 2 years ago
incredible man
mayaslave 3 years ago
I'm proud to be related to that man.
Pamathey 3 years ago
jimmy doolittle was my grandpas cousin
dilldill101 3 years ago
Cool- he was my grandma's cousin. We must be related somehow.
Pamathey 3 years ago
ha..all 3 of u guys are bullshitting
dogman045 2 years ago
No- I'm actually not. My grandma's maiden name is Doolittle-- he was her cousin.
Pamathey 2 years ago
These men had balls of pure steel. And gave America a boost it sorely needed.
Buzzramjet 3 years ago 3
Just some factual points, the take off was possible only because the carrier was making 20 knots into a 30 knot wind, which meant these aircraft already had a 50 knot airspeed before commencing their take off run. Still a very marginal take off.
AltitudeWarrior 3 years ago
Those men were the bravest men who ever lived. They KNEW if they were downed over Japan they faced extreme torture and probable death. Hats off to you guys!! from an old man...
Toneyboy53 3 years ago
Actually, some of them WERE captured by Japanese forces, just not in Japan. Because they were discovered and had to leave early, none of them had enough fuel to make it to their planed landing sites in China and they were forced to ditch in the ocean, bail out and/or crash land in parts of China that Japan controlled. Many of them were helped to escape by friendly Chinese (who were risking their own lives doing so) but some of them WERE captured.
fmichaelb 2 years ago
Heyy Guys:
Jimmy Doolittle is my Grandpa's cousin. The cool thing is, we have some of his money and my family's last name is Doolittle! We have personal photos of him, too. I never got to meet him because he died before I was born, but my dad did. And all the men on my Doolittle side of the family are in the army. (my daddy.) Jimmy was an awesome guy- I'm so proud of cousin Jimmy!!!
jrd4ever 3 years ago
hey dude!!! your related to me if u aint lying!!! Jimmy oolittle is also related to me, I dont know how ut my dad said he is like 2 years ago, I'll ask him when he gets back from las vegas :-). And dude is your last name Coleman? jw caus i might now u lol
jakec98 3 years ago
Jimmy Doolittle is one of my best friends grandfather. I have heard many stories
buckeyeboyh5 3 years ago
Jimmy Doolittle.What a real man should be.What an amazing person.
viperBSG 3 years ago
Jimmy Doolittle is my grandpas first cousin
dilldill101 3 years ago
CONGRADS my teacher showed this in our His 107 class :P
dudenell 3 years ago
*BRAVE* is a word almost inadequate to describe these men. These flyers each possessed a pair of nuts that most guys nowadays can only dream of. It's a moot point anyway, cuz in fact most guys nowadays have had their nuts removed by their local feminazis. Even though this raid didn't inflict much physical damage, it nevertheless gave the Japs a little bitch-slappin' taste of what was to come a few years later. The smart ones, like Adm. Yamamoto, paid strict attention.
wasserdagger 4 years ago
Way to go Doolittle.You said it beautifully.Nice 1 dude.Thanx from Canada
Kilooscarromeo 3 years ago
What a great comment. I re-read it ten times, it's a riot and so true, every word!
logancody07 3 years ago
slrman apparently you think your the best at everything ive got news for you ,your are not ,you are arrogant conceited rude and ignorant
XCERTIFICATE 4 years ago
Thank you for your insight ...
n1014f 4 years ago
X - I just don't understand your reaction. Looks like sirman was only offering to help possibly enhance the quality of the video.
YooTubeNavyMan 4 years ago 2
467 feet, and 800 miles. BRAVE MEN.
w30olds 4 years ago 2
you guy are the best! thanks
w30olds 4 years ago
Thank you for posting this. If I had a copy of the original video, I think I could improve the quality somewhat. I have a very good video editor (Sony Vegas 6.0d) that can sometimes do good stuff with old video.
slrman 4 years ago
Although a small raid with limited damage it had far reaching effect in Japanese Naval Thinking especially Admiral Yamamoto. The Japanese decided to except Admiral Yamamoto's plan for the Midway Operation and the rest you know is History. From a Baby Boomer God Bless You General Doolittle.
tss77 4 years ago 2