Timeline for Was a strategic bomber raid ever completely wiped out?
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| Sep 21, 2021 at 8:53 | comment | added | jwenting | @AnonymousPhysicist morale is a strategic goal in and of itself. | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 23:53 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | The wikipedia page you linked says the Doolittle Raid was for morale purposes, and not for strategic purposes. So it isn't a strategic bomber raid. | |
| S Sep 19, 2021 at 12:03 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed typo. Edited URL
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| Oct 7, 2019 at 1:55 | comment | added | Vikki | @DohnJoe: Weren't they originally planned to land in airfields in southern China, get refuelled and rearmed there, and then fly back the other way (with them only being all forced to bail out over occupied China due to them having to launch the raid too early [due to a suspected Japanese submarine sighting], when they were still out of range of the destination airfields)? | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 8:03 | comment | added | Dohn Joe | This raid was a one-way mission from the inception. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 1:06 | comment | added | Carey Gregory | @JohnK A plane that crashes due to weather, malfunction, or other actions not due to hostile forces is still just as lost as one shot down. I think maybe "didn't return safely" is a better definition. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 0:37 | comment | added | John K | Not sure this counts. Wiped out to me means "shot down". | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 23:03 | history | answered | Ron Beyer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |