And I checked. It turns out Ben Affleck wasn’t even alive during World War II.
And Alec Baldwin looked nothing like Jimmy Doolittle:
Damn.
Regarding #2, the actual distance to the patrol boats when sighted was about 10 miles.
I can’t tell which movie you’re talking about. 
Seriously though…imagine going on such a nearly suicidal mission at the start of the war and yet living to 103 after all.
Add to this that carriers always head into the wind as well during A/C takeoffs. Whatever wind speed is additional “free speed”.
He was the bomb in Phantoms.
Word, bitch, Phantoms like a motherfucker.
Slightly related to the quote and since we’ve mentioned the movies Pearl Harbor and* 30 Seconds Over Tokyo*, my mother’s cousin was stationed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th and was on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Japan surrendered. I wonder how many others witnessed both firsthand.
A thing that gets me, in a lot of these resurrected threads, is just how many former participants got banned along the way. And not just spammers, or full time shit-stirrers, but posters who usually, in the threads I remembered them, had something interesting and informative to say.
That movie was an absolute PIECE OF SHIT.
I’ve often thought this myself.
Last Raider dies.
I went to a lecture by him a couple of years ago. he was very unassuming and still sharp as a tack. Good sense of humor.
As to the op’s first question, I don’t know if it was an actual Doolittle quote but the idea is simple. If you fail to fly off the deck of the ship then the resulting crash into the water is followed by a close up view of the bottom of the ship.