Doolittle’s flight took only 15 minutes, but those minutes proved that a plane could be flown with only instruments. He proved that all-condition flight was possible, opening up new possibilities …
Two individuals independently came up with the ideas that produced the Doolittle Raid: Navy captain Francis Low and Lt Col James “Jimmy” Doolittle—a famous pre-war military test pilot, …
After weeks of dialogue, planners devised an audacious scheme to atack the Japanese home islands and they proposed that Lt. Col. James E. “Jimmy” Doolitle lead the raid. The basic idea …
DOOLITTLE RAID The Mission and the Man ion Project No. 1, the bombing of Japan. Doolittle, who enlisted in the Army in 1917, became a flying c det and received his commission in 1918. …
Raid of April 18, 1942 was the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII. The mission is notable in that it was the only. operation in which U.S. Army Air Forces …
"Doolittle Raid," rapidly grew into a popular legend with the ability to overpower factual histories of the event. Practically overnight, the eighty airmen participating in the raid became famous …
Led by then-Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, these pioneers of Global Strike brought the war to the enemy and, while not inflicting serious damage, the mission’s impact upon American morale was …