Summary Part of Aviation in the Pacific Week on WW2TV Our guest today is James M Scott a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard and author of Target Tokyo, a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. In December 1941, as American forces counted the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military counsellors were planning a counterstrike against Tokyo. The secret bombing mission, led by daredevil Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, was fraught with problems but Doolittle and his men succeeded in striking the heart of the empire in April 1942. The raid buoyed America's morale but came at an horrific cost. The Japanese killed an estimated 250,000 Chinese in retaliation. Based on extensive research for his book; Target Tokyo, James M. Scott will talk about this extraordinary mission and how it has been written about and perceived from 1942 to today.

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