Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Movie Information

The amazingly-detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory--badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible--launch 16 fully-loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier. Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.—KC Hunt

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Writer:

Dalton Trumbo, Ted W. Lawson, Bob Considine

Actors:

Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker