30 Dramatic Seconds Over Tokyo: How the Doolittle Raid Doomed Japan's Empire
At noon on April 18, 1942, the citizens of Tokyo looked up into the sky and saw the impossible.
The real recompense for the Doolittle flyers and the murdered Chinese civilians came on September 2, 1945, when Japan formally surrendered.
Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the National Interest. He can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
This first appeared in 2017.
