Pearl Harbour

[kendra20]

We watched the film Pearl Harbour last night and after the attack a group of 16 bombers were trained take off from a aircraft carrier and bomb a Japanese island, and they wouldn't be able to return, my hubby argued that this didn't happen and was only made up for the film. I say it was a real happening. Does anyone know where I can find out about it, just to stop another domestic lol. I have tried wikki but cant find what im looking for.

[VHG]

I think they mean this, though it is about 4 months after Pearl Harbour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid

[Prudie]

Yes the Doolittle Raid, it did happen but not as depicted an the film.

[VHG]

p.s. I found this by searching on "Pearl Harbour Revenge".

On some "question and answer" sites (asking the same question) people say that the US got their revenge by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan " a few months later".

So much for history lessons at school because these bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki over 4 years later.

[kendra20]

Thank you that's what I was looking for another domestic avoided lol, and I was right yeeeee

[ToraToraTora]

yes it definately happened.

[shoota]

///An estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese during their search for Doolittle's men.///


WHAAAAT!

[Peter Pedant]

It is the Doolittle raid and - I thought comes up in Midway.

It was a Really Big Deal at the time. My father in POW camp (Germany) wrote:
we are all pretty thankful that the American Navy has put in a re-appearance.

When I was in Romania my hosts made sure that I knew that the raid bombing the romanian oil fields then in German hands - also a really big deal so I had heard about them - was Athens - Romanian and then onto somewhere else.

also I recollect that there were one way journeys from the French North African airbases.

Takes a bit of organising if you give it some thought which is why they were so uncommon I think

[Peter Pedant]

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A courtier made a map of Pearl Harbor for the Showa EMperor's enlightenment.
It has just gone at auction for $250 000

It wouldnt surprise me that 250 000 chinese were sacrificed by the Japanese in looking for the Dolittle men. They werent very cuddly then...