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THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO-Ted W. Lawson-Random House...
...roundabout routes, they flew to Eglin Field, Fla. Lieut, (now Captain) Ted Lawson picked up four men on the way. There was matter-of-fact Dean Davenport, co-pilot ("I liked the way he flew"), Charles McClure, navigator, Bob Clever, bombardier, and David Thatcher, gunner-engineer. "Without realizing it, I had picked my crew. . . ." The crews, swelled to 140 men, crowded the Operations Office to hear Major James Doolittle: "If you men have any idea that this isn't the most dangerous thing you've ever been on, don't even start this training period...
...Lieut. Lawson was so eager to get going that the intensive training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
...ship began to give off an ugly plume of black smoke." U.S. gunnery had gotten a small Japanese ship within three minutes. But three minutes is time enough to flash a warning. It would no longer be a night attack at 400 miles, but a daylight raid at 800. Lawson heard the shout: "God damn! Let's go!" They went...
...LAWSON War, W.Va...