In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Van Johnson
as Ted Lawson
Robert Walker
as David Thatcher
Spencer Tracy
as Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle
Tim Murdock
as Dean Davenport
Don DeFore
as Charles McClure
Herbert Gunn
as Bob Clever
Phyllis Thaxter
as Ellen Lawson
Stephen McNally
as 'Doc' White
John R. Reilly
as 'Shorty' Manch
Robert Mitchum
as Bob Gray
Scott McKay
as Davey Jones
Donald Curtis
as Lieut. Randall