Japanese Couldn't Believe This Shot-Up B-25 Sank 2 Ships — Then Saved His Squadron скачать в хорошем качестве

Japanese Couldn't Believe This Shot-Up B-25 Sank 2 Ships — Then Saved His Squadron

Why Major Raymond Wilkins attacked a second ship with a shot-up B-25 during WW2 — and saved 25 men who made it home. This World War 2 story reveals how one pilot's sacrifice over Rabaul changed skip bombing tactics forever. November 2, 1943. Major Raymond Wilkins, 26, led eight B-25 Mitchells toward Simpson Harbor, Rabaul — the most heavily defended Japanese base in the Pacific. After destroying his first ship, his vertical stabilizer was shot away. Every training manual said withdraw with mission accomplished. His squadron commander expected him to break off and head for safety. They were all wrong. What Wilkins discovered that morning wasn't about completing his mission. It was about protecting five B-25s full of men being tracked by a Japanese heavy cruiser. By the end of that day — Bloody Tuesday — surviving crews started doing what Wilkins had done: drawing fire to save others. And they survived. This technique spread unofficially through Fifth Air Force bomber squadrons, crew to crew, saving hundreds of lives before appearing in any training manual. The skip bombing tactics discovered over Rabaul in 1943 became standard doctrine by December and were used across the Pacific theater until war's end. 🔔 Subscribe for more untold WW2 stories:    / @wwii-records   👍 Like this video if you learned something new 💬 Comment below: What other WW2 tactics should we cover? #worldwar2 #ww2history #ww2 #wwii #ww2records