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The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Victory
by Nelson, Craig
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Pencil notations on fep and marks on a number of pages
- ISBN 10
- 0670030872
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030873
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About This Item
New York, NY: Viking Books, 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Pencil notations on fep and marks on a number of pages. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 430 p. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Index. The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States of America on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, and provided an important boost to American morale. The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, United States Army Air Forces. Sixteen U.S. Army Air Forces B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched beyond fighter escort range from the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet deep in the Western Pacific Ocean, each with a crew of five men. All but three of the 80 crew members initially survived the mission. Eight soldiers were captured by the Japanese Army in China; three of those were later executed.
Synopsis
Immediately 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.
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- 71767
- Title
- The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Victory
- Author
- Nelson, Craig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Pencil notations on fep and marks on a number of pages
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0670030872
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030873
- Publisher
- Viking Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Hap Arnold, George Barr, Jacob DeShazer, Doolittle Raid, Robert Hire, USS Hornet, Ted Lawson, B-25 Mitchell, Edward York
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