| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 223 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Aviation classics series
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Aviation classics series (Washington, D.C.)
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| Contents |
Introduction by Ellen R. Lawson -- Thirty seconds over Tokyo -- Postscript -- After one year -- Letters. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Ted W. Lawson's classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition for the sixtieth anniversary of the legendary 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." Which is what "the Tokyo Raiders" did. Lawson gives a vivid eyewitness account of the unorthodox assignment that eighty-five intrepid volunteer airmen 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 Forces 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, bad weather, darkness, and a shortage of fuel caused by an early departure took a heavy toll on the raiders. For many, the escape from China proved a greater ordeal. This anniversary edition features a foreword by noted aviation writer Peter B. Mersky and an introduction by Mrs. Ellen R. Lawson, Ted Lawson's widow, as well as twice as many photographs as the original book, several published here for the first time. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lawson, Ted W., 1917-1992.
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Lawson, Ted W., 1917-1992. |
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Lawson, Ted W., 1917-1992. |
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Bombardment of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan : 1942) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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Bomber pilots. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1942.
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| Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives -- American.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Author |
Considine, Bob, 1906-1975.
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| Added Title |
30 seconds over Tokyo |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lawson, Ted W., 1917-1992. Thirty seconds over Tokyo. Paperback ed. Washington, DC : Brassey's, ©2003 1574885081 (OCoLC)80744675 |
| ISBN |
9781612342313 (electronic book) |
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1612342310 (electronic book) |
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1574885081 |
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9781574885088 |
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1574885545 |
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9781574885545 |
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