This is a great movie that focuses on the Doolittle Raid in 1942. It was PAYBACK for Pearl Harbor!! The moral in the US was not great since the Japanese kept invading islands even after Pearl Harbor. They invaded the Philippines on December 8th even! So, this movie follows the flyboys who flew for Doolittle and and dropped bombs on Tokyo, killing only 50 people. The best scene was the raid itself. There was some great ACTUAL footage of the planes taking off even! Then of course the horrible crash landings in China and the aftermath of the Chinese taking care of what Flyboys they could. Although Spencer Tracy gets top billing, he's not in the movie THAT much. But in the scenes he IS in, he is terrific! The HORROR of what the Japs did to the Chinese after the Doolittle Raid is never revealed. But just so you know, they slaughtered 250,000 Chinese in retaliation.
Review of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
