AMERICA STRIKES BACK
After Pearl Harbor, America seemed to have lost the war before it had begun. Allied forces were being beaten across the Pacific by the Japanese military juggernaut, and morale was at the breaking point. America desperately needed to strike back at the enemy. For this, a corps of heroic volunteer fliers led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle began training to attack the very heart of the Japanese Empire -- Tokyo.
To succeed, the "Tokyo Raiders" would have to launch sixteen fully loaded B-25 twin-engine medium bombers off the deck of the aircraft carrier...

Ted W. Lawson's classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. -One of the worst feelings about that time, - Ted W. Lawson writes, -was that there was no tangible enemy. It was like being slugged with a single punch in a dark room, and having no way of knowing where to slug back.- He added, -And, too, there was a helpless, filled-up, want-to-do-something feeling that the Japanese] weren't coming--that we'd have to go all the way over there to punch back and get even.- Lawson gives a vivid eyewitness...