... April 18, 1942, 12:00 In the B-25, after five hours flight, are now to draw the Japanese coast, the tension of the crew is at its maximum.
tension, but surprise, it did not see any enemy fighter in the sky, and especially that of being consistently hailed by fishermen and farmers, they fly at low altitude!
anesthetized from the beginning of the war by the triumphant discourse of Propaganda, they obviously have no reason to imagine that this war, they believed the consequences reserved for only enemies of Japan, just to catch up and that they see the planes go right now jackrabbit "are not theirs.
And besides America is far, thousands of miles. How enemy planes could they reach so far, and also thwart the vigilance of the navy and air force imperial?
Unless they are lured by the big red circle that American planes in the center still wearing their badge (1), which evokes so that Japanese planes it has already led to many tragic mistakes ...
(1) since 1 January 1921, the badge affixed to U.S. military aircraft included a red disk in the center of a star White, itself contained in a blue disc. Confusion with Japanese aircraft, the red disk was removed by order of May 15, 1942
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