Have You Heard of the Doolittle Raid?

Gather round young warriors and let me tell you a story that many of you may not have heard. The Doolittle Raid is named in honor of LTC James "Jimmy" Doolittle who planned it and was responsible for its conduct.
This was a WW11 event whose purpose was more political than military. It was meant to injure the morale of the Japanese people by showing them that they were vulnerable to direct attack. At the same time it was to boost US morale by retaliating for the Japanese attack on the US mainland at Pearl Harbor. I think a lot of it was just plain old hurt pride also.
Anyway the pilots and crewmen who volunteered to participate in the raid knew that their chances for survival were slim, and some of them were killed.
The plan was to use B-25 bombers to bomb the Japanese homeland and to land in China. Well as all of you who have been affiliated with the military know things never go according to plan. The bombers had to launch early due to the fact that their carrier was spotted by a Japanese trawler which did in fact turn out to be a spy ship. So now the aircraft which could barely hold enough fuel for the initial mission had to be launched from farther off of the Japanese coast.
The bombers had to be stripped of all heavy armanent to be able to fly off of the carrier (USS Hornet) in the first place. Most of them ended up in Japan because they couldn't make it to China, and 1 ended up in Russia.
I don't know if this operation achieved it's goals. There had to be some effect on Japanese and American morale but was it worth the lives of the crewmen who were lost and captured. I'm not trying to speculate here one way or the other but those brave crewmen do need to be remembered which is one of the purposes of this blog. Another way of remembering past hstoric events is thru the use of a custom pilot's ring. The story of these airmen should not be forgotten by any means. We ought to remember the sacrifices of all who have served i the US Armed Forces.