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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Paperback)
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Paperback)
Series: Aviation Classics
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Discovery Miles 3 950
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Ted W. Lawson's classic "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" appears in an
enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the
Doolittle Raid on Japan. "One of the worst feelings about that
time," Ted W. Lawson writes, "was that there was no tangible enemy.
It was like being slugged with a single punch in a dark room, and
having no way of knowing where to slug back." He added, "And, too,
there was a helpless, filled-up, want-to-do-something feeling that
[the Japanese] weren't coming-that we'd have to go all the way over
there to punch back and get even."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.
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