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

Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo itself. At his bidding, a squadron of eighty scarcely trained army fliers, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, set forth on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission. The attack was successful-until Japanese spies forced most of the squadron to crash-land in enemy-occupied China, where pilots w...