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Thirty Seconds over Tokyo is a 1944 film based on a 1943 book by Ted W. Lawson. In both the book and film Lawson gives an eye-witness account of the assignment that he and eighty-five volunteer airmen – the "Tokyo Raiders" – carried out in April 1942. Lawson shared his first-hand experience as the pilot of the "Ruptured Duck", the seventh of sixteen B-25s to take off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet.

The film stars Van Johnson as Lawson, Phyllis Thaxter as Ellen Lawson and Spencer Tracy as Gen. James Doolittle, the man who planned the operation.

The film is based on the 1942 Dolittle Raid, the first American attack on the Japanese capital following Pearl Harbor. It includes actual footage of B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launching from the USS Hornet at the start of the mission.

The crew of the Ruptured Duck were: 1st Lt. Ted W. Lawson, 2nd Lt. Dean Davenport, 2nd Lt. Charles McClure, 2nd. Lt. Robert Cleaver, and Cpl. David Thatcher.

Experimental rock band Pere Ubu's 1975 debut single is named after the film.

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