361: I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

Col. Doolittle takes off in a B-25 bomber from the flight deck of USS Hornet, on his way to bomb Tokyo.

President Roosevelt wanted the US military to find a way to strike back at the Japanese Home Islands, in revenge for Pearl Harbor.

It was a tall order, but the US Army and Navy found a way.

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

String Quartet No. 19 in C Major
Composed in 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Public domain.
Performed by the Musopen String Quartet. Public domain recording. Source.

Closing War Theme

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I’ve seen it claimed that there was also a strategic consequence of the Doolittle raid, in that the Japanese scaled back their immediate plans to increase their presence in the Indian Ocean–which took some pressure off British India.