WW2: The Doolittle Raid
Warfare
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The Comacazi Mission - A Suicide Mission
The first trans pacific flight is only a decade before that, and they had to drop the landing gear and all sorts of other kit off of the plane so that it could safely crash land into oregon with enough fuel. There were no plans that could reliably get any serious payload from the united states, or any allied territory on to japan. It actually took just bare knuckle engineering to get these big, fat army bombers with any serious payload off of an aercrapt carrir.
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