Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo WWII Newsreel (Great Original Footage)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- From the Pare Lorentz Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. MP 71-8:99 Castle Films Newsreel 09:37 Col. Jimmy Doolittle prepares for the raid over Tokyo. Pilots and planes are shown on board the carrier. The planes take off in choppy seas and successfully bomb targets. It's the first time Tokyo is bombed. Crew members also share an interview together. Doolittle received the Congressional Medal of Honor for the mission.
Video Courtesy: Castle Films (Public Domain)
Great video. One inaccuracy that I could detect. The bombers did not circle until there was a formation. The bombers took off, turned left to circle to back behind the Hornet, then fly over the flight deck, which was pointed toward Japan. The Navy provided wind speed and direction on black boards. Then each bomber made its way toward its target, one at a time. The training, raid, and aftermath is described in Captain Ted Lawson's book, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." Thanks for posting this. The courage of these crews who made it and those who didn't still brings a tear to my eye.
Makes sense, circling would have been a waste of already short fuel.
Amen to that. I can only hope if anything were to happen (China/Russia/N-Korea) to the U.S. today that people my age (24) would step up like we did in ww2. Even today in 2019 all of these daring raids are still super inspirational. Atleast to myself.
All 16 aircraft took off between 08:20-09:19. Most flew toward Japan in groups of two or four, then singly at wave-top level to avoid detection.
Good thing CNN wasn't around in those days
To me these men ARE the greatest. The world really need the boost of being able to hit back.
Agree with you johnny did Japanese think we would let them get away with it.
Prior to the Doolittle Raid, no nation ever attempted to launch bombers from an aircraft carrier. Since the Doolittle Raid no nation ever attempt to launch bombers from an aircraft carrier! These raiders ARE true heroes!
what do you mean by that John Brown? ... the Japanese bombers that attacked at Pearl Harbor were launched from carriers.
You mean bombers of that same size as the b-25. But when you say bomber in context... Well those attacked Pearl Harbor were also naval carrier bombers.
I'd recommend to all of you watching this, GMT Games fantastic board game, Enemy Coast Ahead. You really get a fantastic appreciation of the THOUSANDS of men who worked tirelessly to put these men in a position to become the legends they are.
Great video, thanks for the video!
Thanks for the comment!
Hero's , all of them, these are the guys who made America great!
Great video! Thanks for the share!
Hi american hero! I told General Heinz Gudiaran you'll visit him with a thompson sub machine gun one day!
Does anyone know the story of Captain Marc Mitscher receiving the Japanese medal? (The one that he affixes to the tail of the bomb.) When did that happen, on what occasion?
I know this raid was more for demoralizing Japan than doing any real damage but it would seem to me like we should've hit Japan's oil storage areas the reason I say this is with only 16 bombers we could've wiped out a lot of fuel tanks causing fires that would've taken out more and Japan attacked the US because we shut off the oil we were sending them so they were already hurting for oil and the raid could've made it a lot worse
Bombs just weren't that accurate in WWII. The general strategy was to drop as many bombs as possible from as many planes as possible and hope some of them hit the intended target. With only 16 medium bombers, the odds of hitting anything they were aiming for was slim at best. Best to just drop some bombs on Tokyo, which, regardless of damage, would be a great morale boost for the US, and an utter humiliation for Japan.
But then there would be less oil for us when we won? (:
Brock Corb you need to crack a history book man
They should have put this on call of duty
si Markeyan ?
Why would the soviets intern American soldiers? Weren't they technically allies?
The Soviet Union was not at war with Japan and did not declare war on Japan until after Japan announced their surrender to the US. What really makes it even harder to understand is that the Soviets were already at war with Germany - an ally of Japan, and Germany declared war on the US after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, so Germany and Japan were at war with the US, the Soviets were at war with Germany, but the Soviets just sat back and did nothing in regard to Japan even though the US was sending millions of dollars (back when a million was a lot of money) of equipment to help the Soviets in their fight against Germany.
@@badweetabix I'm usually very sympathetic to the Russian for their trials during WW2 but I have to remind myself that the government of Stalin simply had no ethics at all. If Stalin could see an opportunity to take advantage of a few fliers he would hold them for ten years with a perfectly clear conscience.
The Soviets would not have declared war on Japan after the surrender. Actually the declaration occurred on August 9th, the day of the Nagasaki attack and six days before the surrender.. Their intention was to occupy the northern part of the country and the Kurile Islands. MacArthur told them to fuggedaboudit, and backed it up.
@@vincentsbardella4448 well the USSR occupied the Kuriles & Sakhalin Island which had been agreed upon but the 2 southernmost of the Kuriles were not supposed to be occupied by the Soviets but we let that go but no more
5:03 did someone fall of the ship on the left there? .... looks like someone got blown out into the sea by the bomber taking off
That wasn't a person. It was something light because it lifted up a few feet then blew overboard, definitely not a person though.
Don't underestimate the force coming from the propellers though, they are powerful enough to lift a bomber of a carrier after all, so the airflow coming from them must be pretty strong
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because our oil embargo put them in an impossible situation. Chevron (Standard Oil) first infested China in 1904. Bet they didn't teach you that in History class.
The Japanese were part of the Axis forces. The Japanese and the Nazi's were allies. The Nazi's were headed lead by Adolf Hitler. Not a good person to be aligned with.
Japan had also had attacked China. The US was against what Japan was doing against the Chinese and the civilian population. They were literally raping woman and children. War is ugly and civilians do get killed, but the specific targeting of woman and children and raping and beating them goes way beyond the rules of war. Ever hear about the "Raping of Nanjing"? Not good!
The Chinese people were very thankful to the US because of what the Japanese did to the Chinese.
@@danbike9 You deliberately used incendiaries on cities made of paper and wood, 100,000 civilians were killed that night, accidents can happen but the deliberate targeting of civilians is totally forbiden by all military agreements and you had no mutual defense treaty with China, another war crime also you had the Flying Tigers based in China, another crime but the worse, when you ran out of targets in Japan you just flew some more and bombed CHINESE CITIES instead
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killing thousands and thousands of Chinese women and children so your good guy savior of the world crap you can keep it to yourself, since then you have destroyed how many countries, killed millions of innocents and used all kinds of illegal weapons in wars you had no business being, the US has nothing good left in it, it's the most corrupt and dangerous country that ever existed.
RIP to all the Doolittle Raiders.
Today the last American survivor of this raid passed away .RIP 💪🇺🇸
SKYWOLF GBM i was so sad to hear about that. The last of an amazing brave group
RIP Lieutenant Colonel Richard "Dick" E. Cole, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot, on the lead plane. Colonel Cole's hand was on the throttle of that first plane to leave the deck.
A True American Hero.
God Bless them all for their service to this grant country!!
I am so proud of our men. If you watch 30 seconds over Tokyo the Chinese risked their necks to take care of our men as no I am extremely proud of them also
Never forget such moments.
The Chinese People are no chi-coms.
Unfortunately, such reminder is absent from progre$$ive Kevin Co$tner's ''Pearl Harbor''.
I don't see why people are complaining, this is real footage. Not fake
Doolittle's men needed those Heavy Seas to give them the lift like that. Did you see that? They practically lifted off the deck.
SgtBaker16 Who's telling you this BS kid? Two weeks from March 9-25. Two weeks is all the training they had. How long did you train in drivers Ed in school? Stop making al your dumb misinformation comments. Don't you even know how to research a computer yet? "For months?" Your nuts, this is WWII, there are no months to train. Also Wikipedia says, that this was the first time ever B-25's were launched from a ship and the last. Now you stupid trolls go troll somebody else. And stop trying to mock me. Maybe stop stuffing your fat pie hole and get a life instead of trolling me. I'm right and your wrong. Right? From March 9th-25 is not even close to months idiot.
What a seriously hating personal offending pile of poo. You the one that needs to calm down. I'm very confident in myself. Have a nice day hater. You one of those lying Americans that are right no matter how wrong you are. Epic Fail douchebag. I'm right and your soooo wrong about everything. People will get a good laugh out of that, you try to correct me, and you were the one that needed correcting. Then you go postal, telling me I'm the one that needs to calm down. I can smell garbage like you a 1000 miles away. So don't get cute with me again.
By the way, there are no Sergeant's on my ship, only petty officers. So where do you fit in. Go back to correcting Sniper movies. Your fans will really appreciate that to I bet. lol
+Mr. Midshipman- actually you're incorrect as well. The men started arriving for training about the 27th of February through the 1st of March and had at least the month of March to train, a bit longer then the 2 weeks you claim.
Mr. Midshipman it's ilegal the international law
"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" was the only accurate movie depicting the Doolittle Raid and it did so very well. "Pearl Harbor" did a terrible job depicting the Doolittle Raid, in fact, it was disgracefully historically and technically inaccurate.
the author of that speaks at 8:58
Midway (2019) did a nice job of recreating a portion of the raid, but it was only a few minutes.
@@zoso73 Probably the biggest misrepresentation in movies depicting the Doolittle Raid is showing the raiders over Tokyo in a massive formation bombing the same target. In reality, each plane flew individually at wave-top level, gained altitude just before their bombing run, and bombed individual targets primarily in Tokyo but at least one plane also hit Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe, and Osaka.
if only the british-australian mission 204 have been established succesfully in china and they have mobile radios, the entire raiders would be saved and helped the british in the fight
A USS Hornet is a museum ship berthed at the same pier Doolittle sailed from in 1942, the same pier my old ship, the USS Coral Sea used when I served on her forty years ago. But Doolitle's Hornet was a different ship, the CV-8, third and last ship of the Yorktown class. That Hornet was only commissioned on October 20, 1941, forty-eight days before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. CV-8 managed to survive the Battle of Midway on June 4-6, 1942 unscathed, but was sunk on October 27, 1942 at the Battle of Santa Cruz. An Essex-class carrier, CV-12, took her name and eventually her berth in Alameda, California.
BTW. James Doolittle was born in Alameda.
"Despite the minimal damage inflicted, American morale, still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and Japan's subsequent territorial gains, soared when news of the raid was released.
The Japanese press was told to describe the attack as a cruel, indiscriminate bombing against civilians, including women and children. After the war, the casualty count was 87 dead, 151 serious injuries, and more than 311 minor injuries; children were among those killed, and newspapers asked their parents to share their opinion on how the captured raiders should be treated."
did the Japanese really think we weren't coming for them?
considering they were preparing to face air raids, obviously they did know what we'd do. the film just tries to embellish.
Not exactly. I think most of them knew we would come at some point, but they didn’t expect it to be so soon. And they sure didn’t expect Army Bombers.
Not in 1942. They thought the bombers came from Midway, so they may have sped up their efforts to take over that base.
This is interesting. I have got to tour the Hornet in Alameda. It is funny that this newsreel makes it look so small. It is such a huge carrier. I am glad the historical society was able to preserve it.
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Thank you for posting this. In this time of trouble involving the "New China", it is valuable for the People of the PRC to know that it is NOT them with whom we are angry; it is their government that is choosing to take the warmongering pathway of the Imperial Japanese.
Look at the pupils of the generals when they speak. What do you see ?
April 18. This is THE day. Jimmy...and Dick Cole, too.
The greatest surprise raid was pearl harbor
Col. Doolittle: there is no greater tham the heart of a volounteer
Awesome history lesson!! Thank you!!
RIP tokyo XD
Thank you
2:02 "The greatest surprise raid in the history of aerial warfare"...Really? Isn't there an elephant in the room here? Does 7th December 1941 not ring a bell?...Anyone?
Hoss Hoskins Hoss ..Pearl Harbor was a cowardly attack. Tokyo was a magnificent attack.
If I were to guess you are actually American, would I be showing myself to be cynical...or on the money?
I can understand the commentator's enthusiasm and hyperbole - especially at a time when it was vital to boost the morale of the American people and their armed forces.
But I'm afraid with you, here and now, especially as it is now known how comparatively little physical damage was actually caused by the raid and ignoring the total loss of all the planes used (Doolittle actually went on record stating he had been legitimately concerned he might have faced a court-martial for failing to bring any of the planes home) that, to a neutral, it just comes across, as completely disingenuous and unrealistic to make such a distinction.
It was a great propaganda and morale boosting attack - incidentally the last to be mounted on Japanese home soil until over 2 years later with the firebombing of Yawata - but the greatest aspect was the amazing airmanship of the bomber pilots - especially on the take off. That was truly something to hold in awe.
Audie Murphy American Legend sanctioning and starving Japan was a cowardly action as well, an action that led them to only the choice of war to stop their country from crumbling around them.
Yet American history books would hope you forget about relations prior WW2...
Hoss Hoskins Pearl is basically Taranto 2.0, there's nothing special about it save the torpedo bomber crews' special training for shallow water attacks. They also screwed up big time rendering the entire trip more harm than benefit for the IJN - they fucked up the delivery of the declaration of war (which was supposed to happen almost immediately before the attack), making the attack premature and branded the image of "cowardly Japanese attack" into the American public. Nagumo also failed to attack the port facilities, which contributed to his defeat at Midway as the same port facilities rushed Yorktown back to operational status after Coral Sea.
Mattoropael OK - if you were paying attention you will have noticed that I accepted that the Doolittle raid was a great propaganda and moral boosting attack for America. This commentator was comparing surprise air raids NOT discussing whether attacking America was in the long term interests of the Japanese Empire So let's keep to the point, shall we?
You talk about the failure to achieve the military objectives at Pearl Harbor. Sure, I hear you - that is all on record and not disputed.
But now tell me: what were the US losses at Pearl Harbor? And what were the military objectives achieved in the Doolittle raid - particularly bearing in mind the loss of all the American bombers? How "great" really was the raid from a military point of view?
I understand that you have a lot of emotion invested in this as a patriotic American - and that is completely understandable - but are you truly blind to the jingoism, propaganda and half truths used in the commentary to this wartime video? Really?
Proud of my family!
This raid was a terrible idea.
Why?
Ok fair enough!
360, your parents having you was a 'terrible idea'.
360Nomad this raid slowed down plane creation and oil distribution in Japan though so useless ok
why? were you there.