I vividly remember (I was a 9-year-old) the elation and celebration when the American public was made aware of this attack on those stinking japs...
If the American public knew the whole story about that raid (and about the approximately 250,000 Chinese lives lost to the Japanese response), the celebrations would almost certainly have been much less sanguine.
(In terms of innocent blood lost, that raid was arguably the most expensive morale-building exercise in U.S. military history.)
Doolittle’s autobiography is here:
Man did much, much more than just lead a raid on Tokyo.