tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587842796867542781.post605401629140303237..comments2024-03-26T14:04:31.836-05:00Comments on EBL: Thank you: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo was seventy years ago...Evi L. Bloggerladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00371362907839227149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587842796867542781.post-4963488772795395012012-04-19T08:00:51.069-05:002012-04-19T08:00:51.069-05:00Good point. Thanks.Good point. Thanks.Evi L. Bloggerladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00371362907839227149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587842796867542781.post-76290805925789491482012-04-18T18:17:02.379-05:002012-04-18T18:17:02.379-05:00"all 16 planes were able to drop their bomb l..."all 16 planes were able to drop their bomb loads over Tokyo...."<br /><br />Negative. Ten bombed Tokyo. The remaining 6 bombed other cities, including Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya and Kobe.Charles Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230749757975442384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587842796867542781.post-69699500796360310382012-04-18T16:17:29.356-05:002012-04-18T16:17:29.356-05:00A Cleveland "art-band" called Pere Ubu m...A Cleveland "art-band" called Pere Ubu memorialized the event in their surrealistic 1976 song: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3kKHhG4m0" rel="nofollow">30 Seconds Over Tokyo</a><br /><br />Lyrics:<br /><br />Flew off early in the haze of dawn<br />in a metal dragon locked in time,<br />skimming waves of an underground sea<br />in some kind of a dream world fantasy<br /><br />Sun a hot circle on a canopy,<br />'25 a racing blot on a bright green sea<br />Ahead the dim blur of an alien land,<br />time to give ourselves to strange gods' hands<br /><br />Dark flak spiders bursting in the sky,<br />reaching twisted claws on every side<br />No place to run,<br />no place to hide,<br />no turning back on a suicide ride<br /><br />Toy city streets crawling through my sights,<br />sprouting clumps of mushrooms like a world surreal<br />This dream won't ever seem to end,<br />and time seems like it'll never begin<br />30 seconds,<br />and a one way ride<br />30 seconds,<br />and no place to hide<br />30 seconds over Tokyochickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.com