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Twelve planes came over the next day-Japanese. A few days later a DC-3 landed. Lawson cried when he saw old flying classmates and good friends...
Because Thirty Seconds is the most striking record of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, it will reopen arguments of what was gained, what lost, by that bold adventure. Captain Lawson's book will not settle the dispute. Readers may feel, however, that it settles more important matters. It leaves no doubt about the fighting, tough, quietly heroic qualities of U.S. flyers; even less doubt that the Chinese are a unique, agelessly wise, able and benevolent people...
...last October Sportswriter Robert Considine of International News Service got a letter from the printer of a paper he had once worked for: "Dear Bob, I'm living next to one of the flyers, Captain Ted Lawson, who bombed Tokyo. Lawson lost his leg on the trip and is trying to do the story of the flight. ... Do you think you might help...
Considine got permission from the Air Forces Public Relations Bureau to talk to Lawson, took the train to Washington. There he met a 25 -year-old flyer who had worked his way through Los Angeles Junior College, going to school in the day, working in the Douglas factory at night and sleeping in the school library between classes. An unselfconscious individual, untroubled by his missing leg, Captain Lawson had been trying to get his story on paper, hammering away doggedly but ineffectually. He needed to get his story told. His wife (he had married the Junior College librarian) had just...
...rushed back to New York, typed up 13 pages of notes on the train and carried them to the managing editor of Collier's. Collier's gave Captain Lawson $12,000 for first serial rights. Working from 9 a.m. until 3 the next morning, Considine and Lawson put together Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo in six sessions. Lawson made his corrections on the back of each sheet...