Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo [SEP] cast member
Van Johnson as Lawson, Phyllis Thaxter as his wife Ellen, Robert Walker as Corporal David Thatcher, Robert Mitchum as Lieutenant Bob Gray and Spencer Tracy as Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the man who planned and led the raid. 
In the book Lawson gave an eyewitness account of the training, the mission, and the aftermath as experienced by his crew and others who flew the mission on April 18, 1942. Lawson piloted "The Ruptured Duck", the seventh of 16 B-25s to take off from the aircraft carrier USS
Ubu's 1975 debut single, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", are named after the film.
The opening scene from "Midway" reused footage from "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" to launch the plot of the film with the Doolittle Raid.
"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" was the inspiration for "The Simpsons" episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo".
See also.
- "The Purple Heart" (1944), a fictionalized account of the fate of a group of American airmen from the