Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Now at sea, Col. Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) finally reveals the big mission to his pilots, Lawson (Van Johnson) and Gray (Robert Mitchum) among his charges, in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944.

Quick survey of affairs as Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) speaks to fight crews, Ted (Van Johnson) and other pilots confer, and wives (Phyllis Thaxter, Jacqueline White, Dorothy Morris) chat on the beach, in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944.

Opening scenes with Col. Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) and the B-25 piloted by Ted Lawson (who wrote the book, played by Van Johnson), crewmen Tim Murdock, Don DeFore, Gordon McDonald and Robert Walker, from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944.

Col. Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) addressing pilots (including Van Johnson as "Ted," Robert Mitchum as "Bob") and crews (Don DeFore, Robert Walker) about their still-secret mission, in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1944.

Lt. Miller (Louis Jean Heydt) briefing on short take-offs, Lawson (Van Johnson) and co-pilot Davenport (Tim Murdock) the second to try, taking guff from Manch (John R. Reilly) and naming their plane, in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944.

General Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).