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

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

by Craig Nelson

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... (read more)

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