"I know what your all thinking and now I can tell you. We're going to Tokyo...and we're gonna bomb it!" Doolittle said proudly and all the men cheered.

"The Secretary of the Navy gave me these." Dolittle said as he lifted 2 medals.

"What are they?" Danny asked.

"Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace." Doolittle explained.

"What are we going to do with them sir?" Rafe asked curiously.

"We're gonna wire them to the bombs and give them back." Doolittle answered simply.

MEANWHILE

"Grace? Sweetie, you've been in there for 20 minutes is everything all right?" Evelyn asked knocking on the bathroom door.

Grace opened the door and stepped out. Her face was streaked with tears and she looked tired. "Danny's gonna be a daddy..." She said and burst into tears.

"Oh, dear." Evelyn sighed and pulled Grace towards her in a tight embrace.

"Oh, god, Ev! What if he doesn't come back? What do I do then?" Grace shook fiercely. The thought of Danny's death was terrifing to her.

"Don't talk like that, Grace! He's gonna come back to you! And Rafe is coming back to me...everythings going to be fine." Evelyn tried to comfort both of them with her words.

BACK WITH THE RAID

"And where's the secret base, S-Sir? The o-one we t-takeoff from." Asked Red.

"The navy will get us to within 400 miles of the Japanese coast. We'll launch off the carriers from there." Doolittle explained.

"Sir, has this ever been done, launching an army bomber off a navy carrier?" Anthony asked, shocked as the rest of the men.

"No. Any other questions?" Doolittle said shortly.

C-Colonel, we been p-practicing takeoff's, but I ain't sure we can land on these carriers d-decks." Red explained.

"We won't have the fuel to get back to the carriers; they'll turn and run back to Hawaii the minute we're airborne." Doolittle informed, making the men even more confused.

"Then wh-where do we land?" Red finally asked.

"I have a phrase I want you all to memorize: 'Lushu hoo megwa fugi.' It means 'I am an American.' In Chinese." Doolittle finished and the men remained quiet, letting it all sink in.

"It's shorter than our practice runway." Danny said that evening as he was talking to Rafe.

"They'll turn the ship into the wind before we launch. That'll help." Rafe said.

"We'll be loaded with 2,000 pounds of bombs and 1,500 pounds of fuel." Danny answered back and said sarcastically "Yeah, that'll help out a bunch."

A couple of days later, all the men are standing outside, listening to Doolittle's plan for the raid.

"We'll take off late this afternoon. We'll hit Tokyo at dusk, and drop incendiary bombs. Then it's on to China, where you'll arrive at dawn. That's if everything is perfect..." Doolittle looked around. Everyone of them had serious expressions on their faces. Some looked scared. Others, down right petrefied. "Listen you guys. I'm the first plane --then McCawley, Walker, the rest of you. I'll have the shortest run. If I don't make it, you don't go."

"Colonel...we're all going. Whether you make it or not." Rafe said.

Doolittle smiled slightly and replied "I know."

LATER THAT DAY

"Army pilots, man your planes!" the loud speaker screamed out. All the men jumped...this was it. They got ready quickly and headed out for further instructions from Doolittle.

"Load in every bit of extra gas you can carry! Take anything that you don't need out of the plane!" Doolittle yelled, working on his own plane.

Just before taking off, Danny and Rafe talk inbetween their planes. "Broomsticks instead of tail guns." Danny shook his head.

"We'll get separated over the target, but you and I will meet up for the run to China. I'm on your wing." Rafe said putting a hand on Danny's shoulder.

Danny did the same to Rafe. "And I'm on yours. Land of the free."

"Home of the Brave." Rafe answered back and the two went their seperate ways, into their own planes.

Danny pulled out a picture from his front pocket. It was Grace...His Gracie...He would keep his promise to her. He'd come back no matter what. She had been through so much that he didn't want to hurt her again. It didn't matter how badly he was injured or what a doctor said, he'd come back...For Gracie...

MEANWHILE

Grace was doing the same thing...Looking at a picture of Danny and praying for his safe return. She was 3 months pregnant with Danny's baby and the only thing that could make her happier would be Danny back with her. She needed him too much for him to be that far away. He was her strength. When they thought the worst about Rafe and thought he was dead, he was her comfort. He was her everything...

IN THE PLANE

The planes drop their bombs on the unsuspecting Japanese and head for China. All they could see for miles was water. They didn't have anyplace to land and they were running out of fuel.

"How much do we have left?" Danny asked Red.

Red held up an empty can. "This was the l-l-last o-one, Danny." He replied.

"There's land up ahead! Everybody see it?" Rafe said into his headset. Danny and Doolittle both responded yes and they all headed for the land.

Rafe was the first to land. It wasn't his best landing, but it's hard to land with people shooting at you.

Danny saw this and did what he could to help...he shot all that he could from the air and made a drastic landing, taking out all that he could.

Rafe ran to Danny's plane, searching for him. "Danny? DANNY?!"

He spots Danny, he's going in and out of consiousness. "I've made better landings." He laughed slightly, but gasped when he began to hurt all over.

Rafe noticed a V shaped shard of the fuselage hooked into Danny's neck. He takes it out. "Hang on, Danny! Your gonna make it! Just hang on!" Rafe shouts to Danny, but Danny can barely hear him, it feels like he's in a completely different world than Rafe...like he was floating away...into the darkness...

Cliffhanger! sort of....Read and Review! You know that you want to! haha