Ted W. Lawson

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Ted W. Lawson (1917–1992) joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he volunteered for a secret mission that evolved into the raid on Tokyo in April 1942. After retiring from the service in 1945, he went into private industry and worked on several projects that involved aircraft and space programs. He is the author of the memoir Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

By Ted W. Lawson

Edited by Robert Considine

In this World War II classic, Captain Ted W. Lawson tells the story of America’s legendary strike back on the Japanese Empire in one of the most daring missions in military aviation history: the legendary Doolittle Raid.

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