Product Description
Octavo, xiv, 447pp.
Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine.
No additional printings on copyright page.
Offsetting to front free endpaper from laid-in newspaper article.
Faint dust along top edge of the text block.
In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 on front flap, faint sunning to spine, a near fine example.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the leader of the Doolittle Raid, Jimmy Doolittle, for which he received the Medal of Honor.
Inscription reads: "To Donna Grimm: With kindest personal regards, and every good wish to you and your family.
J.
H.
Doolittle.
" Gen.
James H.
Doolittle (1896-1993) was the recipient of the Medal of Honor for his raid on mainland Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Known as the Doolittle Raid, the long-range bombing raid utilized 16 B-25B Mitchell medium bombers, with the plan to land in unoccupied China.
The bombing raid was successful and a major morale booster for the United States, four months after the surprise attack on Hawaii.
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