Doolittle Raiders: What Heroes Do after a War (9780764356148)

Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about four months after Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a quick response to the Japanese ambush on Hawaii to demonstrate to the Japanese that they were not invulnerable to attack, and to give a much-needed boost to American morale. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle was selected to plan and lead the Raid from the USS Hornet. Much has been written about the daring raid and the frightening escape through China, but little has been written about these brave men's lives before and after the Raid. This collection of biographical sketches tells us much about who these men were. Much of the biographical material was obtained from a private collection of Raider information and memorabilia that Ellen Lawson collected over a fifty-year period. Ellen was the widow of Maj. Ted Lawson-a Raider and author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 144 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 12.7mm | 317.51g
• Publication date 01 Dec 2018
• Publisher Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Publication City/Country Atglen, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0764356143
• ISBN13 9780764356148
• Bestsellers rank 1,360,274

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