When the US Hit Tokyo After Pearl Harbor

Follow and Wishlist our game on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3606970?utm_source=0248 April 18th, 1942. Lt. Col. James ‘Jimmy’ Doolittle leads sixteen US Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers on an audacious bombing raid of Japan. The twin-engined American bombers have to take off from a US Navy carrier’s deck - something that has never been done before - fly hundreds of miles to bomb Tokyo and then another 1500 miles to safety of the Chinese mainland. It’s an incredibly dangerous mission, but for Doolittle and the Americans a chance to avenge Pearl Harbor is well worth the risk. But, before they reach their designated take-off point, they are spotted by a Japanese picket boat and the Americans are forced to launch the mission ten hours early and 220 miles further away than planned. This is the story of the Doolittle Raid. Special thanks to: David F. Bonner, Chief Historian, Air University and Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama for providing archival materials used in the production of this film. Sources: 1. Chun, Clayton K. S. (2006). The Doolittle Raid 1942: America’s First Strike Back at Japan. 2. Lawson, Ted W. (2002). Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. 3. Rottiers, Geert (2023). Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle: The Doolittle Raid. 4. Scott, James M. (2015). Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor. Hit join to become a member and get exclusive perks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-f2WBfSCZiu0bOBydjot3w/join Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/yarnhub Check out our exclusive merch https://yarnhub-shop.fourthwall.com Join us on Discord https://discord.gg/yarnhub-1087778019822813334 00:00 US Task Force Spotted by Japanese Picket Boat 00:53 Lt. Col. James Doolittle Leads the B-25 Launch 03:40 Sneaking Past A6M2 Zeroes 04:36 Doolittle Bombs The Tokyo Arsenal 05:58 Japanese AA Gunners Unleash Flak at B-25 08:13 Staff Sergeant Edwin Horton Fights Ki-27 Nates 11:49 First Lieutenant William G. Farrow Bombs Nagoya 14:20 B-25 Crews Bail Out Over China 15:36 Farrow’s B-25 Reaches Japanese-held Nanchang 17:18 Japanese Capture Farrow’s B-25 Crew 18:13 Captured Doolittle Raiders Face Sentences Yarnhub uses the Unreal® Engine. Unreal® is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. Unreal® Engine, Copyright 1998 – 2026, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved.