“Some guy named Doolittle is said to have been responsible” sez dave above. wonder if that’s that same crazy bastid who took a bunch of B-25s off a carrier –which is as we know 99% impossible — 600 miles from Japan in the middle of the Pacific, four lousy months after Pearl Harbor, on a one-way mission –not enough fuel to do much but bail out over enemy-held China –to bomb Tokyo and shake up Tojo –and who then somehow got back, and somehow into the ETO, in order to blow up them DB engine factories?