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The Doolittle Raid (Patreon)

Published:
2021-04-14 15:01:14
Imported:
2023-06

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This week, the Doolittle raid strike fear in the heart of the Japanese leadership, who had not expected their island to be at risk from the US for at least another two months. Indy narrates this nail-biting raid with the suspense it deserves, so we'll keep the description short for today. 

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138 - America Strikes Back - Tokyo in Flames - WW2 - April 18 1942

The Doolittle Raid is just a little bombing raid over Tokyo that doesn't do that much physical damage. It does, however, have big repercussions- partly in terms of future offensive plans for the Japanese fleet, and partly in terms of the thousands of Chinese lives taken in reprisals for allowing the US bombers to land in China. There is small scattered action on the Eastern Front, more Japanese advances in Burma, and a French VIP escapes captivity in Germany and heads for Switzerland and freedom. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join The TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost?sub_confirmation=1 Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @ww2_day_by_day -https://www.instagram.com/ww2_day_by_day/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Iryna Dulka Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) Colorizations by: - Mikołaj Uchman - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ Sources: - Stan S. Katz - IWM: IND 3595 - Image of 'The Fortress of Königstein from the North-West' by Bernardo Bellotto, © National Gallery of Art, Washington Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: - Rannar Sillard - Easy Target - Howard Harper-Barnes - London - Jo Wandrini - Dragon King - Dream Cave - The Beast - Reynard Seidel - Rush of Blood - Wendel Scherer - Out the Window - Brightarm Orchestra - On the Edge of Change - Gunnar Johnsen - Not Safe Yet - Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning - Philip Ayers - Trapped in a Maze Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Really appreciate the inclusion and continued referencing of the huge contribution and suffering that the Chinese forces and people played in the Far East. I wasn't aware of their military presence in Burma and this is usually skipped over in many histories so really interesting to be learning so much. As ever, great episode.

Anonymous

Great episode! I find the delay because of forgetting the international date line so hilarious and somewhat so American-like, I don't quite know why... Doolittle certainly did not do little here, it was quite a feat, I loved the detailed account of the raid's repercussions... Thank you for mentioning general Yefremov, one of the most revered Soviet generals... The Germans buried him with military honours, the German general at the funeral told his soldiers: "Fight for Germany as general Yefremov fought for Russia"... Thanks again for a great episode and cheers from Slovenia!

Eric Johnson

Any chance of a special on the growing nationalist groups in IndoChina as the war goes one as well as the more on the Indonesian events as the war progresses?

JM

Yes, the Chinese consequences have always left me with mixed feelings about this raid.

Anonymous

Great episode! Thank you for all the info on the Burma theater, learning a lot!

Anonymous

The next to last Raider to pass away lived only 70 miles from me and I didn't know about him until he died.

Anonymous

Never heard of that Doolittle raid.. was a good lesson today. Thank you, team :)

Anonymous

What happened to the American airmen captured by the Soviets? Some 'allies' they were! Thanks for another great episode.

Anonymous

That international dateline thing shows up in a lot of histories, where an event is claimed to be on one day and one day different in others. By the way, speaking of the "Date Line" -- up until now, the "end day" on Friday (e.g. April 3, 10th.) This time, it's on Saturday the 18th. Is this some new form of inflation?

Anonymous
>>57804272

They were interned because the USSR was neutral in the Pacific war at that point. Later in the war they “escaped” Soviet custody and made it to allied embassies in Persia.

Anonymous

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Marc Steenbergen Netherlands

I love the picture of Doolittle in front of the GeeBee sportster, there are only replicas as the originals all crashed. The ultimate raceplane.

Anonymous

I wonder if they had considered how many Chinese civilians would have killed in the reprisals would they have still gone through with it? 250,000 dead by some estimates. I am a fan of FDR's response to the question as to where the raid was launched from. He said "It was launched from Shangri-La." I am even MORE of a fan of the USN for naming one of it's aircraft carriers USS Shangri-La.