article_snippet: Pilots volunteered and trained in Florida for what Pilots only knew was 'extremely hazardous.'
article_snippet: Navigator Griffin, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, got top-secret briefings with pilot David Jones in Washington, just five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
article_snippet: Once at sea, the rest learned targets - factories, plants, military facilities on JapanJapan.
article_snippet: Pilots knew the uncertainties: what if the Navy task force was attacked?
article_snippet: What defences would the Navy task force face?
article_snippet: And with B-25s unable to land on a carrier decks, could the Navy task force reach friendly bases in China?
article_snippet: All 16 planes narrowly stayed ahead of Japanese searchers, who killed villagers suspected of helping the Americans.
article_snippet: In the end, fourteen crews, except for one crewman, returned either to the United States or to American forces.