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Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Thylacine Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. DJ: none BOOK: fine trade pback minus slight spotting and sunning on edges and creaking front hinge.
Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. Black and White Photos and Illustrations (illustrator). First Printing. Textblock is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; corners lightly dog-eared and some light wear at the base of the spine. 449p., including index. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Fine. Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear.
Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade paperback. Condition: Good. xiv, 449, [1] pages. Foreword by General Curtis LeMay. Illustrations. Map. Chapter Notes. Six Appendices, including Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear, creasing and soiling. Retired Air Force Colonel Carroll V. Glines is the author of 36 books and more than 700 magazine articles on aviation and military subjects. Three of his books are about the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan. He was also the co-author of General Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography entitled I Could Never Be So Lucky Again. He was formerly the editor of Air Cargo, Air Line Pilot, and Professional Pilot magazines, and then became the curator of the Doolittle Library at the University of Texas, Dallas, and historian for the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Derived from a Kirkus review: Because the range of the B-25 bomber was only 300 miles, a plan was conceived in January 1942 by which the bombers could be launched against the Japanese homeland from an aircraft carrier. Carrier-based bombers had never been tried before. The famed Doolittle Tokyo raid was part of an American master plan to build up our power in the Far East and to aid China. B-25's had to be modified, the carrier Hornet readied, crews trained for the radical take-off procedure, arrangements made to receive the planes in either China or Russia, -- all in secrecy. Doolittle, perhaps the most widely known pilot in the world, was given charge of the operation and a target date. When the mission finally comes the story is told by Doolittle himself and fifteen of his participating officers, plus excerpted testimony from a Japanese war crimes trial relating to treatment of prisoners. James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 - September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer. He made early coast-to-coast flights, won many flying races, and helped develop instrument flying. Doolittle earned a doctorate in aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925. He was a flying instructor during World War I and a Reserve officer in the United States Army Air Corps, but he was recalled to active duty during World War II. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for personal valor and leadership as commander of the Doolittle Raid. The raid was a major morale booster for the United States and Doolittle was celebrated as a hero. Doolittle was promoted to lieutenant general and commanded the Twelfth Air Force over North America, the Fifteenth Air Force over the Mediterranean, and the Eighth Air Force over Europe. After World War II, he retired and left the Air Force but remained active in many technical fields, and was eventually promoted to general 26 years after retirement. The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. It demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided an important boost to American morale. The raid was planned, led by, and named after Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, later a Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army Air Forces and the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Sixteen B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched without fighter escort from the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet deep in the Western Pacific Ocean, each with a crew of five men. The plan called for them to bomb military targets in Japan and to continue westward to land in China. Fifteen aircraft reached China but all crashed, while the 16th landed at Vladivostok in the Soviet Union. Of the 80 crew members, 77 survived the mission. Eight airmen were captured by Imperial Japanese Army troops in Eastern China; three were later executed. The B-25 that landed in the Soviet Union was confiscated and its crew interned for more than a year before being allowed to "escape" via Anglo-Soviet-occupied Iran with the help of the NKVD. Fourteen complete crews of five returned to the United States or to American forces, except for one crewman who was killed in action. The raid had major psychological effects. In the United States, it raised morale. In Japan, it raised doubt about the ability of military leaders to defend the home islands. It also pushed forward Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plans to attack Midway Island in the Central Pacific, an attack that turned into a decisive defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Midway. The consequences were most severely felt in China, where Japanese reprisals caused the deaths of 250,000 civilians and 70,000 soldiers. First paperback edition [stated]. First printing [stated].
Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Barney's books, Beer, DEVON, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book in very good condition. Unmarked contents. Soft covers show a little wear.
Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: By The Lake Books, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good /Plus. First Paperback Edition. A clean unmarked copy. Binding is tight, square and uncreased. Some wear to covers. Remnant of bookstore sticker on inside of rear cover.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Published by Brand: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New!.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.5.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Seller: the good news resource, Park Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing.
Published by VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., NY, 1981
ISBN 10: 0442219253ISBN 13: 9780442219253
Book First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First paperback edition. SIGNED by author, Carroll V. Glines, the official historian for the Doolittle Raiders on the title page. As well, this copy bears the signatures of 30 Army Air Corps pilots & crew members (Not including the son of one pilot & a relative of another plus a Chinese interpreter) who flew on the most famous bombing run of the Second World War. They include: Lt. Colonel James H. Doolittle (Pilot & leader of the raid) , Travis Hoover, Douglas V. Radney, Everett W. Holstrom, David M. Jones, Joseph W. Manske, Chase J. Nielsen, David J. Thatcher, Edward J. York, Robert G Emmons, David W. Pohl (youngest member on the raid) , Thomas C. Griffin, J. Royden Stork, Edwin W. Horton, Frank G. Kappeler, Charles W. Greening (son of pilot Ross Greening) Jacob Eirman, James M. Macia, Jacob De Shazer, Robert L. Hite, Charles J. Graham, Jr. , Gerald E. Bentz, Stephen Leonard, Tung-Sheng Liu (Chinese civilian interpreter) Henry L. Miller, Henry A. Potter, Richard E. Cole, William M. Bower, Waldo J. Bither, Richard A. Knobloch, Edward J. Saylor & Donald G. Smith. On p.435 of appendix a relative of co-pilot Lucien Nevelson Youngblood(deceased 1949) has signed what appears L' Dean Youngblood in his place. Close to near fine in trade-size pictorial printed wrappers. (Crease at spine. Previous owner's bookplate & embossed stamp on front inside cover & endpaper. A few ink check marks in text & light shelfwear) A remarkable & impossible artifact to duplicate today. (B).