One day last October Sportswriter Robert Considine of International News Service got a letter from the printer of a paper he had once worked for: "Dear Bob, I'm living next to one of the flyers, Captain Ted Lawson, who bombed Tokyo. Lawson lost his leg on the trip and is trying to do the story of the flight. ... Do you think you might help him?"
Considine got permission from the Air Forces Public Relations Bureau to talk to Lawson, took the train to Washington. There he met a 25 -year-old flyer who had...
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