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- Oct. 11, 1993: Died:James H. Doolittle
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 11, 1993 How Life Began
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 25
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- <p> DIED. JAMES H. DOOLITTLE, 96, aviator; in Pebble Beach, California.
- In April 1942, America was still dumb struck by Pearl Harbor
- when word came of an impossibly bold daylight air raid on Japan.
- Leading the attack was its architect, Lieut. Colonel James H.
- Doolittle, who had in a few months secretly trained volunteer
- pilots to fly normally land-based B-25 bombers from the deck
- of the aircraft carrier Hornet. The bombing prompted Tokyo to
- shift ships back to the home islands. Doolittle, already a legend
- for such aviation feats as making the first flight guided entirely
- by instruments, now became the war's first hero--he received
- an instant promotion and the Medal of Honor. Spencer Tracy portrayed
- Doolittle in the motion picture Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Doolittle
- went on to a series of posts in the European theater, and his
- Eighth Air Force devastated Germany's military factories while
- shooting down 10,000 enemy planes.
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