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Ross Greening and attacked targets in Yokohama. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle attaches a Japanese medal to a bomb. Photographed on board Hornet shortly before Doolittle's B bombers were launched. Mitscher, Hornet commanding officer, pose with a pound bomb and USAAF aircrew members during ceremonies on Hornet's flight deck prior to the raid.
Doolittle center with members of his crew and Chinese officials following their bail-out near Quzhou, China. Sabine AO refuels Enterprise in rough weather on 17 April, during the approach phase of the mission. Fanning DD maneuvers near Enterprise on 18 April, the day the raid was launched. Hornet arrives at Pearl Harbor on 30 April after launching the raid. Furthermore, the impoverished region, where villagers often defecated in holes outdoors, had been prone to such outbreaks before the invasion.
Anecdotal evidence gathered from missionaries and journalists shows that many Chinese fell sick from malaria, dysentery, and cholera even before the Japanese reportedly began the operation. Chinese journalist Yang Kang, who traveled the region for the Takung Pao newspaper, visited the village of Peipo in late July. In December , Tokyo radio reported massive outbreaks of cholera, and the following spring, the Chinese reported that a plague epidemic forced the government to quarantine the Chekiang town of Luangshuan.
A lance corporal captured in told American interrogators that upward of 10, troops were infected during the Chekiang campaign. The three-month campaign across Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces infuriated many in the Chinese military, who understood it as a consequence of a U. Officials in Chungking and Washington had purposely withheld details of the U. Let me repeat—these Japanese troops slaughtered every man, woman and child in those areas.
News trickled out in American media in the spring of as missionaries who witnessed the atrocities returned home. We shall take them at their own valuation, on their own showing. We shall not forget, and we shall see that a penalty is paid. To say that these slayings were motivated by cowardice as well as savagery is to say the obvious. The Nippon war lords have thus proved themselves to be made of the basest metal ….
Those notices, however, did not get much traction, and the slaughter was soon forgotten. It was a tragedy best described by a Chinese journalist at the time. With permission of the publisher, W. This Day In History. History Vault. Art, Literature, and Film History. Middle East. World War II. Sign Up. One B landed in the Soviet Union and the crew was interned due to a non-aggression agreement between Japan and the Soviet Union.
Of the 75 crewmembers that crashed in Japanese-occupied China, all but 11 were able to escape and evade capture by Japanese forces. This was due to the cooperation of the Chinese people, who in turn, paid a staggering price for assisting the American airmen.
The Japanese executed some , Chinese civilians in the search for Doolittle and his men. Cole and David M. Jones describe the build-up, implementation and aftermath of the Doolittle Raid.
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