Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Signed by four of the "Doolittle Raiders"

Lawson, Captain Ted W.; Considine, Bob (edited by)

Published by Random House, New York, 1943

About this Item

Octavo. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. [4], 221 pages. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Illustrated section. Illustrated end papers. Dust jacket is worn with creases and edge chips. Light browning to the front hinge and the page after the dedication. Signed by 4 of the Doolittle Raiders on the copyright page: David J Thatcher; R. E. Cole #1; R L Hite #16; and Tom Griffin #9. Bob Hite's name underlined on the dedication page. Stated first printing. From the New York Times June 16, 2016: David Thatcher, an Army Air Force gunner who was decorated for helping to save the lives of four severely wounded fellow crewmen in the Doolittle Raid on Japan of April 1942, America s first strike against the Japanese homeland in World War II, died on Wednesday in Missoula, Mont. He was 94 and the next-to-last survivor among the mission s 80 airmen. From wikipedia: Richard Eugene Cole (September 7, 1915 April 9, 2019) was a United States Air Force colonel. During World War II, he was one of the airmen who took part in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 1942. He served as the co-pilot to Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle in the lead airplane of the raid by sixteen B-25 bombers, which for the first time took off from an aircraft carrier on a bombing mission. From the New York Times March 30th, 2015: Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite, the last survivor among eight crewmen who were captured by the Japanese when American bombers brought World War II home to Japan in Jimmy Doolittle s daring air raid in 1942, died on Sunday in Nashville. He was 95. The cause was heart failure, his son, Wallace, said. The raid led by Colonel Doolittle inflicted relatively light damage on military and industrial targets, but it delivered a moral victory to Americans, disconsolate since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor less than five months earlier, and it was a stunning psychological blow to the Japanese, who had been led to believe that their homeland was inviolable. The raid became the basis for the 1944 movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," adapted from the book of the same title by Capt. Ted W. Lawson, a pilot who took part in the attack. From wikipedia: Thomas Carson Griffin (July 10, 1916 February 26, 2013) was a United States Army Air Forces navigator who served during World War II. He was one of the eighty Doolittle Raiders who bombed Japan in April 1942. After the Doolittle Raid, he was relocated to North Africa and was shot down during an air raid in 1943, spending time in a prisoner-of-war camp until he was rescued in early 1945.[1][2 :.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Signed by four of the "Doolittle Raiders"
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military & War