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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 7760016, member: 12789&quot;]Imagine taking off with the belief that in all likelihood you will never come back.&nbsp; Yet, despite that, most of the crews did eventually make it back - one plane landed in Vladivostok Russia and the crew was interred because the Soviet Union and Japan were not at war - but eventually the crew &quot;escaped&quot; via Iran.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jimmy Doolittle thought immediately afterwards that he was going to be court-martialed for the &quot;failure&quot; of the mission.</p><p><br /></p><p>The physical damage to Japan&#039;s military and factories was minimal - but the raid made the Japanese warlords liars when they said that Japan was invincible and would never be attacked.&nbsp; But hundreds of thousands of people couldn&#039;t un-see the aircraft with white stars and not the hinomaru flying over and dropping bombs.&nbsp; It was a portend of a much larger and consequential campaign two years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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