Lieutenant-Colonel Doolittle led the raid with a force of B- s
and an all-volunteer crew of airmen.
Most of the planes carried -pound demolition bombs
and single incendiary clusters,
which were dropped on oil stores, factories and military sites in Tokyo.
A few planes made minor strikes on Kobe, Yokohama and Nagoya,
with one bomb hitting the Japanese carrier Ryuko.
News of this raid has improved
M*A*S*H
Screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr.
Produced by Ingo Preminger
Directed by Robert Altman
Cast List:
Donald Sutherland Hawkeye Pierce
Elliott Gould Trapper John McIntyre
Tom Skerritt Duke Forrest
Sally Kellerman Major Hot Lips Houlihan
Robert Duvall Major Frank Burns
Jo Ann Pflug Lieutenant Hot Dish
Rene Auberjonois Dago Red
Roger Bowen Colonell Henry Blake
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EXT. LANDING AREA OUTSIDE 4
lieutenant colonel Henry Mucci.
You still in this Hamilton?
Im thinking about it colonel.
What are you thinking
about, youre already lost.
You want me to take my hat
off, to show you a better look?
No colonel, I dont want you to...
West Point graduate, Mucci was one of
the most terrific men Ive ever met.
He took on what seem
to many a hopeless task.
The job of turning group
of raw untested recrui
Lieutenant Willinski: four escapes.
MacDonald: nine.
Hendley, the American: five.
Haynes: four. Sedgwick: seven.
The list is almost endless.
One man here has made
attempted escapes.
Group Captain, this is close to insanity.
- Quite.
- And it must stop!
Colonel, do you expect officers
to forget their duty?
No.
It is because we expect the opposite
that we have brought you here.
This is a new camp.
lieutenant...
...thumb his nose at his commander
and get away with it.
It doesnt sound as though
hed be any great loss.
Dont try that, Dryden.
Theres a principle involved.
There is, indeed.
Hes of no use here in Cairo.
He might be in Arabia.
He knows his stuff, sir.
Knows the books, you mean.
Ive already sent out
Colonel Brighton, whos a soldier.
If Brighton thinks we should send
some arms, we wi