TY - BOOK AU - Hale,Nathan TI - Lafayette! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales): A Revolutionary War Tale T2 - Nathan Hale's hazardous tales SN - 1419731483 AV - 940.54 U1 - 940.54 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Amulet Books KW - Doolittle, James Harold, KW - Revolutionary War KW - Aerial operations, American KW - Juvenile literature KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - United States KW - Graphic novels KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fiction KW - Tokyo (Japan) KW - History KW - Bombardment, 1942 N1 - "A Revolutionary War Tale" --cover; Map on endpapers; Includes bibliographical references N2 - On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier. Once at sea, they were told their mission was a retaliation strike against targets in Tokyo. But on the day of the raid, a Japanese patrol boat spotted them and they had to launch early, with barely enough fuel to get them past their target ER -