The U.S. Navy, a 15 or 16 B 25 Medium Bomber Over Japan

Aircraft carriers have turned out to be the most portant ship. The united states, in order to carry out this morale boosting at home and morale damaging, hopefully abroad, operation, they're going to risk two aircraft carriers. A lot of as run by japan at this time period, long stories short, some of em make it home. Some of em don't. And there is a real sense after the warou you get memoirs and everything that confirms it that this was very embarrassing to japanese military leadership.