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Born December 14, 1896, in Alameda, California, little Jimmy spent most of his early years far north in Alaska where his father had followed the great gold rush. Jimmy and his mother joined the senior Doolittle in Nome at the turn of the century. The little kid with long curly locks of hair was not yet three years old.
May 22, 2015 · General James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle (1896-1993) was a well decorated aeronautical engineer, pioneering pilot, military strategist and a combat leader whose military career started during the First World War and ended at the peak of the Cold War. Jimmy Doolittle is most remembered for leading American raid on Japanese mainland during the ...
Jan 2, 2013 · Jimmy Doolittle was not your typical prospective graduate student when he sought admission to MIT at 26, in the summer of 1923. The previous fall, the U.S. Army pilot had become the first to fly ...
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Mar 14, 2024 · 18 April 1942. 80-G-41196. An Army Air Force B-25B bomber takes off from Hornet at the start of the raid, 18 April 1942. Conceived in January 1942 in the wake of the devastating Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the “joint Army-Navy bombing project” was to bomb Japanese industrial centers, to inflict both “material and ...
Already a famous aviator with a number of records to his name, Major Jimmy Doolittle was working to improve American aviation production when the war broke out. Doolittle was a man of action and courage, so somewhat predictably, he requested an immediate transfer to an operational air unit the day of Pearl Harbor.
Apr 8, 2010 · Courtesy: United States Air Forcehttp://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/doolittle.aspOn April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a mission of 16 B-25 bombers w...
