Re: Side effects of Doolittle raid?

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Dave Wilma wrote in article
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I suspect that the successes of the raid fed the proponents of
strategic bombing and the belief that Allied bombers and do anything
and go anywhere. I wonder if planners at the time knew of the
strategic impact upon the Japanese, e.g., the redeployment of assets
to the home islands and the launch of the Midway operation.

I think you're touching on what may have been the primary immediate effect of
the raid. My impression as the news was on the radio and in the newspapers
following the raid was that the primary goal was to influence morale both on the
American/Allies and the Japanese side. I remember hearing the first
announcement and rushing out to the barn to tell my father "They (or may it was
' we') bombed Tokyo." And I can easily imagine Japanese citizens hearing the
same news and feeling there was no longer any safe place for them.

Of course that may not have been the strategic reason at all, but I'd have to
assume it was certainly among the reasons and one reason for the urgency of the
raid.
--
Don Kirkman

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