Jimmy was a great man. Even when he made General he wanted to still fly combat missions and had to be ordered to stay on the ground. He was the one who freed up fighter planes to attack instead of just hanging around the bombers, proving he was a guy who actually listened to his fighter pilots too. This tactic is what crushed the dangerous Luftwaffe.
His famous mission was billed as "revenge" but in reality it was planned as a psychological attack on the Japanese mind set. Its a big reason they carried out the stupid Midway attack and also a big reason they split their forces while doing it. They feared the Aleutians would be used to stage heavy Bombers in attacks against their homelands when in fact we knew the idea was preposterous due to the weather in the island chain.
So instead they sent a Naval strike group there violating their mantra of mass carrier strike groups using all their Kidō Butai like they did in PH in the Midway plan.
Yamamoto was always far over rated. America would never have staged such a terrible operation like Operation MI just because of a fly speck attack of 16 B-25s off a carrier bombed us. But we rightly guessed the Japanese would be shocked and angry their Emperor had been put in jeopardy especially after he'd been promised no Yankee aircraft would ever be able to attack sacred soil.
They even war gamed what would eventually happen at Midway, a bushwhack by American carriers to the north of Midway. They just ignored the war games results. Jimmy Doolittle was a great American.
