Название: The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid - America's first World War II Victory
Автор: Craig Nelson
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 468
Размер: 53,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and one of the major turning points of World War II.