CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 23, 1943

• re. The famous Doolittle raid of Japan
• U.S. Army Air Force B-25B Mitchell bombers
• Realization of Japanese executions

The front page has a banner headline: "HIT JAPS, SENATORS DEMAND; Vengeance Raid Soon on Tokio Promised by Doolittle" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with all 48 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: On April 22, 1943, front-page headlines across the nation reported on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s revelation from the previous day that Japanese forces had executed captured airmen from the April 1942 Doolittle Raid—a historic disclosure that triggered immediate outrage on Capitol Hill, where U.S. Senators and War Department officials vehemently condemned the war crimes and vowed relentless retribution against Imperial Japan. Newspaper issues from this exact date carry immense historic and archival rarity, as they capture the raw, immediate reaction to the first publicly confirmed Japanese execution of American POWs during World War II, marking a critical turning point in wartime propaganda and public resolve. Beyond their high collector demand due to the iconic Doolittle Raid connection, surviving copies of these April 22, 1943 editions—particularly complete issues featuring banner headlines regarding the Senate’s call for vengeance—are exceedingly scarce, as wartime paper drives aggressively recycled domestic newsprint, leaving very few well-preserved originals in existence today.