Ted W. Lawson (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major Ted W. Lawson (7 March 1917 - 19 January 1992) was an American officer in the United States Army Air Forces, who is known as the author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a memoir of his participation in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. The book was subsequently adapted into a film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, and Robert Mitchum.Lawson was born in Alameda, California and attended Los Angeles City College. He joined the Army Air Corps in March 1940 while employed by Douglas Aircraft Company and received his pilot's wings and 2nd Lt. commission on 15 November 1940.