
First Heroes
18 April 1942. Sixteen planes take off from a US Navy carrier in the mid-Pacific. A squadron of young, barely trained flyers under a famous daredevil, Jimmy Doolittle, they are America''s first retaliation towards Japan since Pearl Harbor. Their mission: to bomb Japan''s ''s five main cities including Tokyo. Critically compromised by the discovery of the US fleet by Japanese spies, they are not ex...
18 April 1942. Sixteen planes take off from a US Navy carrier in the mid-Pacific. A squadron of young, barely trained flyers under a famous daredevil, Jimmy Doolittle, they are America''s first retaliation towards Japan since Pearl Harbor. Their mission: to bomb Japan''s ''s five main cities including Tokyo. Critically compromised by the discovery of the US fleet by Japanese spies, they are not ex...