All special equipment such as emergency rations, canteens, hatchets, knives, pistols, etc. To: The Commanding General of the Army Air Forces. It probably could have worked just as well in Airplane!ĭestination Tokyo creates some effective tension (an emergency surgery of its own, a scene involving the disarming of a bomb which is palpably claustrophobic even for a submarine movie), and while it is not based upon actual events (at least none that I know), its plot is not overtly outlandish. Doolittle Individual Report on Tokyo Raid. I wasn't sure what to make of the amputation hallucination (see my earlier post Life or Limb for a clip) - I found it effective, but a bit comical. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo is much better, though I get hung up on Van Johnson's goofball demeanor. (They don't look too digital, but they're close.) I have mentioned its special effects before as a possible saving grace, though even those are a bit thick and add some distance between me and the movie. It's one of those action movies that barely conceals its conventions, one which makes Twister or Independence Day seem completely plausible (though admittedly I have come to like Twister and have lightened up on Independence Day somewhat). It demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attack, served as. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago.
Remembering Pearl Harbor, Hollywood-style The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It's an exciting submarine movie, though, about a crew tasked with infiltrating the Japanese mainland to gather information vital to the first air strike against Japan. The actual raid is not shown in this 1943 film starring Cary Grant, nor does Doolittle appear. Alec Baldwin plays Doolittle in a relatively small part. Its take on the raid is hurried, but the big budget is nice to look at. On the whole, this 2001 film directed by Michael Bay is a rather overdone melodrama with laughable dialog and a confounding romantic triad between lead actors Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, and Josh Hartnett. Spencer Tracy appears sporadically as Doolittle.Ī B-52 bomber leaves the deck in Pearl Harbor (2001) Van Johnson stars in this 1944 film, which depicts the raid from conception through execution and follows Johnson's Ted Lawson as he attempts to escape from Japanese-occupied China after a crash landing.
Spencer Tracy as James Doolittle in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Here's a look at three movies that commemorate the raid. While the damage to strategic targets was minimal, the mission was a moral boost to Americans eager for retaliation after Pearl Harbor, and it damaged the credibility of Japanese leaders who had told their people Japan was untouchable.
The raid was conceived and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle and was full of aeronautical challenges: B-25 bombers were launched for the first time from an aircraft carrier on one-way flights over Japan, carrying barely enough fuel to attempt risky landings in occupied China. air strike against Japan during World War II. Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S.
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