After Pearl Harbor, Col Doolittle recruited Rafe and Danny to fly on the Raid on Tokyo. Rafe and Danny are single-engined fighter pilots and would not be qualified to fly multi-engined bombers. While the B-25 Mitchell bomber is an easy plane to fly, the participants would have come from qualified bombardment squadrons. As a matter of historical record, the pilots on the actual raid largely were recruited from the 34th Bombardment Squadron of the 17th Bombardment Group (aka, "The Thunderbirds").Furthermore, Doolittle implies that the men have been selected due to their being "just about the only pilots with combat experience". This is untrue, and, as aforementioned, would not have been a logical choice; said experience was irrelevant with what the mission entails (Danny & Rafe were land-based fighter pilots dueling with Japanese fighters without needing to bomb anyone; the mission involves multi-engine, bomber aircraft being launched from an aircraft carrier at sea, and who could not maneuver wildly), and the two pilots would have to be extensively retrained to fly multi-engine aircraft anyway.
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