5 Most Impossible WW2 Air Force Missions

The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was a successful secret air operation conducted by the United States government and Army Air Forces to make Japan pay for the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid successfully bolstered American morale and proved that Japan was not invincible. In early 1942, Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle volunteered to lead a task force of sixteen B25B Mitchell medium bombers to attack the most important cities of Japan. The operation was extremely ambitious; basically a one-way mission as the bombers did not have enough range to make it back to friendly lines. Instead, Doolittle and his volunteers would have to crash-land in occupied China and pray that no Japanese sighted them before being rescued.