Discover the lives and stories of the 80 men who made the first attack on Japan following Pearl Harbor. Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about four months after Pearl Harbor. Much of the biographical material was obtained from a private collection of Raider information and memorabilia that Ellen Lawson collected over a fifty-year period. Ellen was the widow of Maj. Ted Lawson—a Raider and author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo .