Editing Doolittle Raid (section)

==In popular culture==
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===Books===
Many books have been written about the Doolittle Raid:
* ''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' (1943), by Captain [[Ted W. Lawson]] – a pilot who participated in the raid, focuses on the experiences of himself and his crew. A popular film based on the book was released in 1944. Written while the war was still in progress, Lawson disguised the identities of the persons in China assisting the raiders and did not publish the story until after the USAAF had released an official communique on 20 April 1943 detailing most aspects of the mission, including the identities of the raiders and their fates.
* ''Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders'', by C. V. Glines (1964) – tells the complete story of the raid, including the unique experiences of each B-25 crew. He followed this with a second account, ''The Doolittle Raid: America's daring first strike against Japan'' (1988), incorporating information from first-hand accounts of the Raiders and from Japanese sources.{{sfn|Glines|1988|p=226}}
* ''Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor'', by James M. Scott (2015) – based on scores of never-before-published records drawn from archives across four continents as well as new interviews with survivors.
* ''Last Mission to Tokyo'', by [[Michel Paradis]] (2020) – revealed the story of the two crews who were captured by the Japanese and the war crimes trials that followed based upon newly discovered records in the United States and Japan.
* ''Raid of No Return'', by [[Nathan Hale (author)|Nathan Hale]] (2017) – a fictionalized account of the raid, presented in graphic novel format for early readers; the book is a part of the Nathan Hale's ''Hazardous Tales'' series.
* ''The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid – America's First World War II Victory'', by Craig Nelson (2003)

===Films===
The raid inspired several films.

A highly fictionalized film in 1943, ''[[Destination Tokyo]]'' starring [[Cary Grant]], tangentially involved the raid, concentrating on the fictional submarine {{USS|Copperfin}}. The submarine's mission is to enter [[Tokyo Bay]] undetected and place a landing party ashore to obtain weather information vital to the upcoming Doolittle raid. The film suggests the raid did not launch until up-to-the-minute data were received. All the after-action reports indicated the raid launched without time for weather briefings because of the encounter with the picket ship.{{sfn|Doolittle|1942}}

A 1944 film, ''[[The Purple Heart]]'', was a highly fictionalized account of the torture and execution of Doolittle Raid prisoners.

The Doolittle Raid was the subject of another 1944 feature film, ''[[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]]'', based on the book of the same title by Ted Lawson, who was seriously injured in a crash landing off the coast of China. [[Spencer Tracy]] played Doolittle and [[Van Johnson]] portrayed Lawson. Footage from the film was later used for the opening scenes of ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]'' and in the TV miniseries ''[[War and Remembrance (miniseries)|War and Remembrance]]''.

The 2001 film ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'' (with [[Alec Baldwin]] playing Doolittle) presented a heavily fictionalized version of the raid. The film used the retired World War II aircraft carrier {{USS|Lexington|CV-16|6}} in [[Corpus Christi, Texas]], to stand in for a Japanese carrier, while the aircraft were launched from {{USS|Constellation|CV-64|6}}, standing in for ''Hornet'' from which the Doolittle Raid was launched. The film's portrayal of the planning of the raid, the air raid itself, and the raid's aftermath, is not historically accurate.<ref>Gutthman, Edward. [http://www.mysanantonio.com/performance/article/Pearl-Hyped-Yet-Promising-Movie-to-honor-3302399.php {{"'}}Pearl' – Hyped, yet promising / Movie to honor vets, nation's wartime spirit"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403011700/http://www.mysanantonio.com/performance/article/Pearl-Hyped-Yet-Promising-Movie-to-honor-3302399.php |date=3 April 2015 }}. ''MyUSA'', 7 December 2000.</ref><ref>Heines, Vivienne. [http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/?file=NL_pearlharbor_heines "Bringing 'Pearl Harbor' To Corpus Christi"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012005647/http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/?file=NL_pearlharbor_heines |date=12 October 2014 }}. ''Military.com'', 1 August 2000.</ref>

The [[VHS video]] ''DeShazer'', including film footage of Doolittle and the flight preparations, along with the B-25s launching, is the story of missionary Sergeant [[Jake DeShazer]] of B-25 No. 16 (the last to launch from ''Hornet''). The video is based on ''The Amazing Story of Sergeant Jacob De Shazer: The Doolittle Raider Who Turned Missionary'' by C. Hoyt Watson. At the end of both the video and the book, DeShazer after the war meets [[Mitsuo Fuchida]], the commander and lead pilot of the Pearl Harbor attack.

''Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast'', a documentary by Tim Gray and the World War II Foundation, released in 2015, has interviews with the few surviving members of the raid.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwiifoundation.org/2015/05/02/doolittles-raiders-a-final-toast-documentary-to-premiere-at-the-gi-film-festival-in-washington-dc/ |title=Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast Documentary to Premiere at the Capitol in Washington, DC |publisher=WWII Foundation |date=6 November 2015 |access-date=6 November 2015 |archive-date=27 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227034737/http://www.wwiifoundation.org/2015/05/02/doolittles-raiders-a-final-toast-documentary-to-premiere-at-the-gi-film-festival-in-washington-dc/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 2018 film ''[[The Chinese Widow]]'' (aka ''The Hidden Soldier'' and ''In Harm's Way'') presented a heavily fictionalized version of the raid with [[Emile Hirsch]] playing a fictional Captain Jack Turner who was hidden from the Japanese in China by a Chinese widow and her daughter, after he parachutes from his B-25 near her village. [[Vincent Riotta]] played Jimmy Doolittle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5759434/reference|title = In Harm's Way (2017)|work=IMDb}}</ref>{{bsn|reason=IMDb is [[WP:RS/P|not a reliable source]]|date=July 2024}}

The raid is depicted in the 2019 film ''[[Midway (2019 film)|Midway]]'', with actor [[Aaron Eckhart]] portraying Jimmy Doolittle. Emperor [[Hirohito]] is seen being told to go to a shelter during this scene.

=== Television ===
The character of Harry Broderick in the 1979 television series ''[[Salvage 1]]'' (played by [[Andy Griffith]]), was a fictional veteran of the raid.