Jimmy Doolittle

The aviation hero and pioneer is best known for leading the famous WWII air raid of Tokyo.

SHALYN MARCHETTI

Jimmy Doolittle was a man of firsts. First flight across the country. First flight solely by reference to instruments. First successful outside loop. In fact, it could be said that he is, in many ways, responsible for flying as we know it. Yet it was the U.S. air raid of Tokyo on April 18, 1942, that would put James “Jimmy” Doolittle in the history books. Doolittle began his military service in 1917 when he enlisted as a Signal Corps Reserve flying cadet. He received his Reserve Military Aviator rating from the U.S. Army in 1918 and would spend the remainder of World War I as a flight instructor in the States. Doolittle must have made an impression as an incredible pilot even then. As WWI ended, he was recommended by…

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