HIST 122 An Analysis of The Doolittle Raid Discussion Responses
just need a response to each of these discussion posts.:
1) For this weeks discussion I’m going to talk about a import event in World War 2. There are many events that come to mind. From D-Day to the battle of Iwo Jima. I’m going to talk about the Doolittle Raid. The Doolittle Raid took place on April 18th 1942. It was in retaliation due to the Japanese Attacking Peral Harbor. After the attack on December 7th 1941 moral in the United States was at a all time low. The Americans needed a win. The idea came from U.S. Navy Capt Francis S Low with the idea of launching U.S. Army Air Force bombers off the deck of a Navy carrier. The commander who was picked to lead this mission was Lt Col James Doolittle. They picked the B-25 Mitchel for the raid which was heavily modified doubling the fuel range, removing the radios and adding fuel tanks where turrets use to be. Mock tail guns were added out of broom sticks that were painted black. On April 1 1942 the B-25s were loaded onto the USS Hornet at Naval Air Station Alameda and the carrier took off out of San Francisco Bay. There were 5 groups that would take off from the USS Hornet hitting targets in Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe. On April 18th a Japanese Patrol boat found the task force heading towards Japan. The USS Nashville quickly sank the ship. However a message was intercepted by the USS Hornet of the Japanese’s Patrol boat alerting the Japanese’s of American ships. Lt Col Doolittle was hoping to launch his B-25s 400-600 miles from the Japanese coast. The order to launch was given and the B-25s were more then 820 miles away. The Raiders were ordered to avoid all nonmilitary targets especially the Imperial Palace. The first B-25 took off at 8:20am and all the Raiders were airborne within a hour. The Raiders flow low to the ground to avoid Japanese radar. When the raiders were about to hit their targets they climbed to 1200 feet dropped there bombs then decreased altitude to treetop level. An estimated 14 tons of bombs were dropped on the Japanese’s mainland. The raiders did damage to factories, ammunition dumps, naval facilities and military barracks. The Japanese fired flack at the Raiders but didn’t hit any of the B-25s. After the raid all B-25 made their way to China. Since it was deemed imposable to land the B-25 back on the USS Hornet. Only 3 of the 16 B-25 failed to reach China. One was low on fuel and went to Vladivostok in the USSR. Two crews were captured by the Japanese in China after bailing out of there B-25. The bombing did very little physical damage against the Japanese. But it was a enormous psychological effects on the U.S. and Japanese. It showed the Japanese that they are not safe and the the U.S. can strike their country. After what happen in Peral Harbor it was a huge win for Americans everywhere. It boosted the moral of every Soldier, Airmen, Marine and Sailor.
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2) Italy, Japan, and Germany all participated in acts of aggression leading up to the second world war. Within their own countries, they saw changes to more hostile leaders. In 1922 Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy and in 1933 Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany (Imperial War, 2018). A few years after Mussolini came to power in Italy, they invaded what is now Ethiopia with hopes to take over some of their land (Imperial War, 2018). Britain and France attempted to respond to Italy, but they were not successful, which gave Germany confidence to move military to Rhineland (Imperial War, 2018). Again, Britain did not respond with strength. A couple years later Hitler took over Austria and shortly after he threatened war when he wanted to take over Czechoslovakia (Imperial War, 2018). During this same time period, Japan was also looking at expanding it land and did so by invading part of China and taking over the area (“A specter abroad”, 2019). After successfully taking over a portion of China in 1931, they invaded the rest of China in 1937 (“A specter abroad”, 2019). The final straw, and the start of World War II, was when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 (Imperial War, 2018). A year later the Tripartite Act formed the Axis, which was made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan (“A specter abroad”, 2019). The combination of Italy, Japan, and Germany’s aggression and Britain and France not holding a strong front, led to the second global war.
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