Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Willey, Scott A.
Article Excerpt
Bombs over Brookings: The World War II Bombings of Curry County, Oregon and the Postwar Friendship between Brookings and the Japanese Pilot, Nobuo Fujita. By William McCash. Bend Ore.: Maverick Publications, 2005. Maps. Diagrams. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. xiii, 117. $14.95 Paperback ISBN: 0-9729830-4-X
On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle led sixteen U.S. Army Air Forces B-25s on a bombing raid over mainland Japan from the USS Hornet. While relatively little damage was done by this small force, there were two significant results: (1) The Japanese high command was shocked. In the long term, fighters...
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