I didn't note it yesterday but April 18 is another anniversary of a blow for freedom. It was the sixty-fourth anniversary of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo.

Right. A raid with near 100 percent loses and nil military value. That is if you look at it from the POV of today's "unbiased" MSM.

LOL! Thanks Deangle Berry, you should take your act on the road!

(or you could just lie down in the middle of the road yourself)

I deleted that comment as spam, Cecil.

Thanks!

Feel free to delete mine as well, and this one too. Just to keep the thread clean.

While the Doolittle Raid inflicted very little physical damage to Japan, it had enormous consequences besides the boost to American morale. As a result of the raid, Japan pulled several front line fighter units back to Japan, taking them out of action. More than that, it caused Japan to provoke a fight at a little place known as Midway.

Yamamoto's primary strategic concern was the elimination of America's remaining carrier forces. This concern was exacerbated by the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo (April 18, 1942) by U.S. Army B-25's flying from a U.S. carrier, which was a severe psychological shock to the Japanese, and demonstrated that the Japanese military could not prevent attacks against the Japanese home islands. Yamamoto reasoned that an operation aimed at the main carrier base at Pearl Harbor would induce them to fight. However, given enhanced American land-based airpower now on Hawaii, Yamamoto judged that the battle could not be fought directly against the powerful American base. Instead, he selected the atoll of Midway, which lay at the extreme northwest end of the Hawaiian Island chain, some 1300 nm (2400 km) from Oahu. Midway itself was not especially important in the larger scheme of Japan's intentions, however, the Japanese felt that the Americans would consider Midway a vital outpost of Pearl Harbor, and would therefore strongly defend it.

Tactically, the Doolittle Raid accomplished very litte. However, it had very significant strategic impacts.