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General Jimmy Doolittle dies in California and is buried in Section 7-A of Arlington National Cemetery, with his high school sweetheart, Josephine Daniels Doolittle. |
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Jimmy Doolittle reverts to inactive reserve status and returns to Shell Oil as a vice president. |
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Major General James (Jimmy) Doolittle assumes command of the 8th Air Force and begins to develop the strategic bombing campaign that ends Germany's ability to wage war. |
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After much preparation and training, carrier-based Army aircraft led by Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, bomb Tokyo and boost American morale in the early months of World War II. Doolittle himself is forced to bail out when fuel is exhausted, but lands in a rice paddy in China near Chu Chow. |
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Jimmy Doolittle is promoted to lieutenant colonel and sent to Headquarters Army Air Force to plan the first aerial raid on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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Jimmy Doolittle becomes the first pilot to take-off, fly, and land an airplane using instruments alone, without a view outside the cockpit. His contribution to instrument flying paved the way for all-weather airline operations. |
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James Doolitte enters the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for special engineering courses. Two years later, he will be awarded a Doctorate in Aeronautics. |
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MIT PhD graduate Jimmy Doolittle becomes the first to fly coast to coast in the United States. He will later go on to lead the first US air-raid over Tokyo, Japan following Pearl Harbor. |
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Jimmy Doolittle, who served as a flight instructor in the US during World War I, receives a regular commission and a promotion to first lieutenant. |
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Jimmy Doolittle is commissioned a second lieutenant in the Signal Corps' Aviation Section. |
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