The First Heroes The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid-- America's First World War II Victory

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18 April 1942. Sixteen planes take off from a US Navy carrier in the mid-Pacific. A squadron of young, barely trained flyers under a famous daredevil, Jimmy Doolittle, they are America's first retaliation towards Japan since Pearl Harbor. Their mission- to bomb Japan's 's five main cities including Tokyo.

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