This is Angela Odell, and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 155 of Real Cool History for Kids.

This episode is for Spruce Myers, who wanted to hear the story of the daring do-little raid.

Hey, Spruce, this one's for you.

Back in episode 40, I told you guys the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941.

It was December 7, 1941, and that was the event that officially brought the United States into World War II.

This attack made Americans very angry, and soon after, the United States declared war on Japan. Well, the story that takes

place in this episode shows the way Americans thought and felt at that time, and they wanted justice.

And they began to prepare for war. On a quiet morning in April of 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor,

16 American B-25 bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet,

a huge aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean.

These bombers weren't originally designed to take off from a ship,

but this was no ordinary mission. The brave men aboard these planes were part of one of the

most daring military operations in history, the Doolittle Raid.

This incredible mission named after its leader, Lieutenant Colonel James, also called Jimmy,

Doolittle, was meant to be a bold response to the attack at Pearl.

The United States wanted to send this message to Japan.

America is strong, and we would not back down.

But there was a problem.

Japan was very far away.

And at that time, American bombers couldn't reach it from any of the U.S. bases.

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