... April 17, 1942 While the squadron, now reduced to only those aircraft carriers and cruisers, lashed to more than 20 knots towards the Japanese coast, and in a rough sea, everyone aboard the Hornet busy the final preparations for this historic mission.
Under the objectives of photographers and will be to capture the event, the mechanics are full of aircraft (over 4,400 liters each) and one machine gun dealers (two .50 in the rear turret and .30 in the nose cone)
However, the great thing is the loading of bombs (one tonne per plane), which gives rise to a ceremonial become incomprehensible to the contemporary reader, conditioned by three generations of Peace and ideology "zero death".
Asked before the planes, the bombs are, and as is the custom of the time masculine, decorated with "little personal messages" for their future victims. Some of them - enjoy the symbolic - are decorated with glittering decorations, however, that several officers present, including Doolittle had obtained permission Japanese before the war .. This important formality
Patriotic accomplished just have to wait for the start of the raid, planned for the next day, late afternoon.
But like all battles, the first victim is not believed that ...
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