... April 18, 1942, 9:20. In a roar of engines or maxed out, the "Bat Out of Hell" was in turn snatched from the deck of the Hornet and immediately headed to Nagoya .
board, each of the five crew members breathed a sigh of relief ... as did those of Doolittle's plane, 59 minutes ago.
But for all of them it is now that the real difficulties begin
First, there is the crossing itself, an endless journey of about five hours, we proceeded to listen the noise of engines and studying the sky.
Over the ocean and the area controlled by the Japanese, everybody knows in fact that any mechanical failure, or any intrusion of an enemy fighter, invariably ends with a ducking, synonymous from certain death. Before taking off, these young people do in fact were no illusions and provided each other more than 50% loss. But with barely 20 years But they had had little trouble convincing himself that it would be other - and not them - who would receive the wrong number in the great lottery of Death ...
Yet again, Luck seems to smile in bold, so it safely after five hours of flight, the first B-25 are finally drawing the Japanese coast.
It is noon, Tokyo
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