Jimmy Doolittle

James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolitle served with great distinction as a general in the United States Army Air Corps during the Second World War, earning the Medal of Honor as the commander of the Doolittle Raid.

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He was born in Alameda, California, spent his youth in Nome, Alaska, attended Los Angeles Junior College, and spent a year at the University of California School of Mines before leaving in October 1917 to enlist in the Signal Corps Reserve as a flying cadet. Doolittle trained at the University of California School of Military Aeronautics at Rockwell Field, California, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Signal Corps' Aviation Section on March 11 1918.

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