Sarah Paine

Big egos, one campaign for each ego, and apparently that wasn't even big enough for MacArthur, okay?

But even so, I don't believe the inter-service rivalries in the United States were remotely on the scale that they were in Japan.

I have one final example to prove that one.

So...

After Pearl Harbor...

that had been tremendously successful for Admiral Yamamoto.

He wanted to do, the next thing was to attack Midway, because US basing there.

And the army said, I don't want, we're not going to do this.

And Yamamoto goes, I'm going to resign.

And the army, we don't care.

I'll commit suicide.

We'll buy popcorn.

And here's what changes this.

So after Pearl Harbor, Americans wanted to let the Japanese know that we were thinking about them.

And so this is where Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, the Doolittle raids named after him.

In April 1942, it was a one-way trip off an aircraft carrier because they had so much fuel in order to get to Japan.

The idea was they're going to go bomb Japan and then ditch in China whoever survives.

Very brave people who did this.

And are they going to cause massive damage in Japan?

Well, yeah, if you're directly underneath, you won't appreciate it.