article_snippet.sent: Thatcher, who was played by Robert Walker in the movie while Spencer Tracy portrayed Doolittle, chuckled as Spencer Tracy recounted how the Raiders had given little thought at the time of the raid about earning a place in history. '
article_snippet.sent: We figured it was just another bombing mission,' Spencer Tracy said in a recent phone interview from Spencer Tracy home.
article_snippet.sent: In the years afterward, though, Spencer Tracy said, they realized: 'It was an important event in World War II.'
article_snippet.sent: The Raiders brushed aside Doolittle's assurances that anyone was free to withdraw.