Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

• Director
  • Mervyn LeRoy
• Writers
  • Dalton Trumbo
  • Ted W. Lawson
  • Bob Considine
• Stars
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Van Johnson
  • Robert Walker

  Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage concerns pilot Ted Lawson (Van Johnson), who loses a leg while escaping from China after the attack; other subplots concern the meticulous preparations for the raid, and the individual exploits of those Doolittle flyers who crashed into the sea or were captured by the Japanese.