Does the American plan to bomb Tokyo after Pearl Harbor really exist in history?

does exist. On April 18, 1942, the United States carried out an air raid on Tokyo to Japan as revenge for the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. The mission was planned by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who was a famous pilot before the war, so it is also called "Doolittle air raid". The aircraft carrying out the mission are 16 American B-25 Mitchell bombers.

The losses caused by air strikes in Japan are as follows: 5 people were killed; 252 people were injured; 9 buildings were damaged or collapsed. Bombed include Japan Diesel Engine Manufacturing Company, No.1 Steel Plant of Japan Iron and Steel Company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Company, Substation of Ministry of Communications, National Fiber Clothing Company, warehouse of Yokohama Manufacturing Company, Nagoya Aircraft Factory, a military factory, a naval laboratory, an airport, a temporary arms supply station, nine power buildings, six large oil tanks, a clothing factory, a food storage warehouse, a gas company, two other companies and Nagoya.

One of the 16 American planes landed in Vladivostok, Soviet Union, because of excessive fuel consumption. In order not to cause diplomatic trouble, the Soviet government seized the plane and five crew members. The crew returned to China via Iran in 1943. The remaining 15 planes crashed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, and most of the pilots forced to land or parachuted. Of all the 75 pilots, 3 (say 5) were killed, and 64 (say 62) were rescued by anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in China, and then they arrived in Chongqing and Guilin and returned to the United States. Most of them fall in the ruling areas where the national army and the Japanese army crisscross, such as Zhejiang. Some of them landed in Japanese-occupied areas. For example, one of them landed in jianhu county, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Four of the pilots were rescued by farmers and transferred to Chongqing by the Zhang Aiping Department of the New Fourth Army. One was killed by the Japanese army. Two other pilots were killed when the B-25 made an emergency landing off the coast of China. Eight crew members of two bombers were also captured.