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The Doolittle Raiders, as they became known, were a squadron of eighty scarcely trained young men led by the famous daredevil aviator Jimmy Doolittle. Their mission-the daring World War II bombing raid of Tokyo and other cities in April 1942-was successful until Japanese spies forced most of the squadron to crash-land in enemy-occupied China, where pilots were ferried underground across the country to safety. One plane landed in the Soviet port of Vladivostok, where the crew was eventually smugg

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Author

Nelson, Craig

Publisher

The Viking Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781322843971

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.7 / 5 (129 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14