... in the collective imagination, the Doolittle Raid , it is primarily the movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo " , made in 1944 by Mervyn LeRoy , according to the book that the IEUTENANT Lawson , pilot of B-25 "Ruptured Duck" , wrote himself well after his return to the United States. historically fairly accurate overall, this film about sins, however many points ... starting with the fact that Tokyo was not the only city under attack, and also that the overflight of the Japanese capital actually lasted more than five minutes, given the extent of it.
Above all, and for reasons as much as the cinematography of Propaganda, he gives this bombardment of images worthy of the Apocalypse, with many crumbling buildings and factories ablaze. images that can incite the viewer to believe that the city was almost completely razed this afternoon there.
Nothing is further from the truth: with only one ton of bombs per aircraft, the raid does in fact cause only minimal damage - it can also in be otherwise - and the damage to be repaired quickly, moreover, to the point that most people will not learn that the bombing by hearsay.
Ultimately, and with all due respect to Hollywood, the only result of interest in the military is obtained by the 02,247 "The Avenger" , one device to bombard Yokosuka and, by incredible stroke of luck, manages to place one of its four 227-pound bombs on the small carrier Ryuho , then completion and commissioning which will by itself be delayed by several months (1) (1) born tanker submarines, the Ryuho was at Yokosuka since December 1941, to be converted into a small carrier of 15,000 tons.
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