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The Doolittle attack generated more, and more violent, ripples than once thought. Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, at the controls of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, zoomed low over northern Tokyo at midday on Saturday, April 18, 1942. He could see the high-rises crowding the Japanese capital’s business district as well as the imperial palace and …
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