Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Author: Ted W. Lawson
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2003-04
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1574885545
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Author: Ted W. Lawson
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2003-04
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1574885545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A new edition for the sixtieth anniversary of the famous Doolittle Raid"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: James M. Scott
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 0393246760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken…Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era." —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations.
Author: James Doolittle
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 030742832X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victory General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all. As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology. During World War II, he served his country as a fearless and innovative air warrior, organizing and leading the devastating raid against Japan immortalized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Now, for the first time, here is his life story — modest, revealing, and candid as only Doolittle himself can tell it.
Author: Michel Paradis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 150110473X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history.
Author: Jonna Doolittle Hoppes
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1595809155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamous for leading the Tokyo Raid, America's first strike against Japan in World War II, Jimmy Doolittle led a remarkable life as an American pilot. This firsthand account by his granddaughter reveals an extraordinary individual—a scientist with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIT, an aviation pioneer who was the first to fly across the United States in less than 24 hours and the first to fly “blind” (using only his plane’s instruments), a barnstormer well known for aerobatics, a popular racing pilot who won every major air race at least once, recipient of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and Presidential Medal of Freedom, a four-star general, and commander of both the 8th, 12th and 15th Air Forces. This memoir provides insights into the public and private world of Jimmy Doolittle and his family and sheds light on the drives and motivation of one of America's most influential and ambitious aviators.
Author: Donald M. Goldstein
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1616388919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIV /div Jacob DeShazer found himself as one of the 80 men participating in the famous Doolittle Raid over Japan shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. His story is not only about the bravery as a soldier and POW during war, but also about how powerful love and forgiveness can be when given to the enemy.
Author: Ted W. Lawson
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780394903354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramatic story of a pilot who helped to carry out the mission of bombing Tokyo with details on preparations and the actual raid
Author: Carroll V. Glines
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780515101720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn April, 1942, President Roosevelt urged the military high command to prepare a devastating carrier-launch raid against the Japanese home islands. And the only person who dared to lead the mission was the best-known risk-taker in the U.S. Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle.
Author: Craig Nelson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-09-30
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1440650802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.
Author: Dennis R. Okerstrom
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0826273556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 7, 2015 Dick Cole has long stood in the powerful spotlight of fame that has followed him since his B-25 was launched from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In recognition the tremendous boost Doolittle’s Raid gave American morale, members of The Tokyo Doolittle Raiders were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in May 2014. Doolittle’s Raid was only the opening act of Cole’s flying career during the war. When that mission was complete and all of the 16 aircraft had crash-landed in China, many of the survivors were assigned to combat units in Europe. Cole remained in India after their rescue and was assigned to Ferrying Command, flying the Hump of the Himalayas for a year in the world’s worst weather, with inadequate aircraft, few aids to navigation, and inaccurate maps. More than 600 aircraft with their crews were lost during this monumental effort to keep China in the war, but Cole survived and rotated home in 1943. He was home just a few months when he was recruited for the First Air Commandos and he returned to India to participate in Project 9, the aerial invasion of Burma.