Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

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.

Mervyn LeRoy

Bob Considine Dalton Trumbo Ted W. Lawson

Bill Williams Bob Considine Dalton Trumbo Don DeFore Donald Curtis Douglas Cowan Herbert Gunn John R. Reilly Leon Ames Louis Jean Heydt Mervyn LeRoy Paul Langton Phyllis Thaxter Robert Mitchum Robert Walker Scott McKay Spencer Tracy Stephen McNally Ted W. Lawson Tim Murdock Van Johnson William 'Bill' Phillips