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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

By: Random House

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Random House)

Last Stocked on 4/28/2023

Product Info

Title
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Publisher
Category
Author
Ted W. Lawson
Publish Year
1943
Pages
221
Dimensions
5.5x7.5x1"
NKG Part #
2147841921
Type
Hardcover

Description

Lawson gives a vivid eyewitness account of the unorthodox assignment that eighty-five intrepid volunteer airmen—the “Tokyo Raiders”—under the command of celebrated flier James H. Doolittle executed in April 1942. The plan called for sixteen B-25 twin-engine medium bombers of the Army Air Corps to take off from the aircraft carrier Hornet, bomb industrial targets in Japan, and land at airfields in China. While the raid came off flawlessly, completely surprising the enemy, a shortage of fuel caused by an early departure, bad weather, and darkness took a heavy toll of the raiders. For many, the escape from China proved a greater ordeal. Peter B. Mersky provides new information on the genesis of the raid, places it in the context of the early operations against Japan, and updates Ted Lawson’s biography.