Popular historian Dr. Gary Hylander will give another historical lecture in his 2019 series. Planned by Admiral King and Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle, the bombing of Tokyo gave a tremendous boost to American morale after Pearl Harbor. In April 1942, the aircraft carrier hornet launched sixteen B-25 bombers against the Japanese capital. While the Doolittle raid did little military damage, it stunned Japanese military strategists. As a result of the raid, Japanese military leaders planned to establish a broad defensive perimeter in the western Pacific to prevent future American air attacks against the Japanese home islands.

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