Ok, my knowledge is a bit shaky, but I don't think that is the case.
If my memory serves me, didn't the carrier turn for home instantly? Was there ever any talk about landing? I didn't think there was.
I thought the plan was this: Launch a set of B25's that had been stripped down to the bare minimum and had any extra weight removed and point them on a course to Tokyo. Then Carrier turns for home and forgets about every plane that just launched. Said planes drop their bombs on Tokyo then head onto China where some partisians would have a radio beacon in order to guide the planes to a safe spot and then smuggle the pilots back home.
Didn't work this way. Even then the only major deviations from the plan were that the planes launched early and then had to find their own places to land due to no radio beacon.
Am I mistaken in any of this? Either way the bombers were not intending to land back on the carrier.
Sounds on the mark to me. As much as some don't care for the source, let me wiki to finish this post right quick.
Wiki excerpts 'Dolittle Raid':
Sixteen U.S. Army Air Forces B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched without fighter escort from the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet deep in the Western Pacific Ocean, each with a crew of five men. The plan called for them to bomb military targets in Japan, and to continue westward to land in China—landing a medium bomber on Hornet was impossible. Fifteen of the aircraft reached China, and the other one landed in the Soviet Union. All but three of the crew survived, but all the aircraft were lost. Eight crewmen were captured by the Japanese Army in China; three of these were executed. The B-25 that landed in the Soviet Union at Vladivostok was confiscated and its crew interned for more than a year. Fourteen crews, except for one crewman, returned either to the United States or to American forces.[1][2]
After the raid, the Japanese Imperial Army conducted a massive sweep through the eastern coastal provinces of China, in an operation now known as the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, searching for the surviving American airmen and applying retribution on the Chinese who aided them, in an effort to prevent this part of China from being used again for an attack on Japan.
The raid caused negligible material damage to Japan, but it succeeded in its goal of raising American morale and casting doubt in Japan on the ability of its military leaders to defend their home islands. It also contributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to attack Midway Island in the Central Pacific—an attack that turned into a decisive strategic defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Midway. Doolittle, who initially believed that loss of all his aircraft would lead to his being court-martialled, received the Medal of Honor and was promoted two steps to Brigadier General.
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So - modify the wish to be the capability of spawning 16 B-25s with no defensive armament on the deck (at once) with the creator of the mission in the first B-25 (with 25% fuel on all planes). When landing gear is raised it is disabled. (This mission can be uploaded once per 12 hours.) There ya go.
