Title: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Author: Captain Ted W. Lawson, edited by Robert Considine
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1943
Description: Hard cover book, maps on endpapers, 221 pages, illustrated with photographs.
PREFACE
?TWO OFFICERS OF THE U. S. Army Air Force sat at a table in a Washington hotel, a few weeks after Pearl Harbor. One was a General?big, ruddy, tough and gray. The other was a Lieutenant Colonel?stocky, scrappy-looking, eager.
For two hours the Lieutenant Colonel spoke to the General and marked up the tablecloth. At first the General laughed mockingly at what the Lieutenant Colonel said. Then he listened. He pulled his chair closer to the table, and listened more intently.
Finally the General slapped the table resoundingly. ?By God, it sounded crazy when you first mentioned it,? he said, ?but I think you can do it. I?ll go to bat for you and help you get things lined up. It certainly would give the country a lift.?
The Lieutenant Colonel leaned back in his chair and smiled with relief. Then he grinned from ear to ear when the General wagged a finger at him and warned: ?But listen here, damn you: as soon as you do bomb Tokyo you get the hell back here to Washington and go to work!?
This, then, is the story of a man who helped carry out that mission.? Condition: There is a former owner?s name on the front flyleaf, else very good. Clean and tight.
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