If you know your history, you know that this raid meant nothing strategically. It was a message, and I got to think these men bore that weight, accepted it, and flew off that carrier anyway.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/14/opinion/greene-doolittle-raiders/index.html
now there are 4 of them left. Great men. What i’d give to sit down with just one and hear the stories.
Pretty moving.