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The First Heroes -- The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid: America\\\'s First World War II Victory


Retail Price: $6.00


By: Craig Nelson


This book was received with a small publisher’s mark on the page edges on one of the 3 sides of edges. It is not visible on a book shelf with the spine facing outward. The book is new and undamaged for reading. However, because of the mark we have discounted this book $2.00. This discount will automatically be applied to your purchase and is IN ADDITION to the 10% discount on orders of $80 or more.

Planned in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor at the behest of President Roosevelt, the U.S. bombing raids on Japan in spring 1942 were the first U.S. strikes of the war. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle of the Army Air Force, in consultation with the U.S. Navy, planned for B-25 medium bombers to take off from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet, hit targets including Tokyo and land at airfields in unoccupied China. The project was innovative and risky, as no medium bomber had ever taken off from an aircraft carrier, and at the time, Allied forces were being constantly beaten by the Japanese. Nelson (Let's Get Lost), whose father was a WWII Air Force pilot in New Guinea and whose mother served as a wartime air traffic controller in Atlanta, digs deeply into the planning, training and carrying out of the mission. All the planes successfully took off and bombed their targets, but a last-minute hitch left them without enough fuel; most reached Allied lines, but eight crew members were captured by the Japanese and tried as war criminals: three were executed. The fates and subsequent careers of all the veterans quoted in the book are warmly detailed, making this an involving account of a lesser known period of the war.
The First Heroes -- The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid: America\\\'s First World War II Victory


448 pgs, SB, 5.5” x 8.5”, photos.Book is new but cover has some shelf wear in front & slight bends in two back corners.Slightly damaged


The First Heroes -- The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid: America\\\'s First World War II Victory

ISBN Number: 0-14-200341-7

Item Number: 1028


 
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