Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

by James M. Scott

Book Overview

In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious counterstrike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo. Four months later, on April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel the enemy's factories, refineries,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393089622
• ISBN13: 9780393089622
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"