The Doolittle Raid: America’s Daring First Strike Against Japan.

GLINES, Carroll V.

Item Number: 146938

New York: Orion Books, 1988.

First edition of this complete account of one of the most morale-boosting gambles of the Second World War. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. Additionally signed on the front free endpaper by six World War II raiders with their titles in another hand: “Bill Bowey” ‘Pilot #12;’ “Davey Jones” ‘Pilot;’ “R.E. Cole” ‘Co-Pilot for Doolittle;’ “Tom Griffin” ‘Naiigator [sic];’ “Chase J. Nielsen” ‘Navigator;’ and “Tung-Sheng Liu” ‘Chintnese [sic] Interpreter for Travis Hoovers Crew.’ Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter A. Davis. Accompanied by three black and white photo cards: one of the B-25Bs aboard the USS Hornet en route to attack Japan, April 1942 and two of Doolittle being decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital and other places on Honshu during World War II. The first operation of its time to strike the country, The Doolittle Raid served as direct retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, proving that the Japanese mainland was indeed vulnerable to American air attacks and significantly improving American morale. Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle planned and led the attack, which was named in his honor. Carroll V. Glines personally interviewed most of Doolittle's surviving raiders to produce this dramatic authentic replication of the events.