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... Doolittle, Bernt Balchen and Claire Chennault. The pictures are by Tom Lea, who has, besides a skilled and patient hand, a feeling for his fellow men. His pictures illuminate much more than just the cranial structure and skin texture of ...
... Doolittle.” Doolittle was a disciple of Billy Mitchell and was cut of the same cloth: farsighted, determined, feisty almost to a fault. Small of stature, Doolittle had a penchant for fisticuffs, and those who challenged him in or out of ...
... Doolittle, who on the morning of April 18 swooped astonishingly down out of the Far Eastern skies at the head of his ... Doolittle and let it be known that Distinguished Service Crosses would be awarded to the 79 airmen who soared ...
... DOOLITTLE'S B-25 RACES DOWN THE "HORNET'S" FLIGHT From washing machines to precision aircraft parts. LIFE. PRESENTS. THE. STORY. OF. HOW. JAP. MAINLAND. WAS. BOMBED. On these pages are two accounts of the Tokyo raid. The first, written by ...
... DOOLITTLE, formerly an ace stunter of the army air corps, leaped to safety a few weeks ago when the fabric tore loose from the wings of his plane while traveling at an indicated speed of 235 miles an hour. Although Doolittle was not ...
... Doolittle was best summed up by Ernst Udet, one of Germany's top aces. “You Americans have two air forces,” he told a war correspondent, “your Army Air Force——and Jimmy Doolittle.” Doolittle was a disciple of Billy Mitchell and was cut ...
... Doolittle in the lead, a force of 80 Americans headed for Japan. turned on radio signals to guide the bombers to Chinese airfields. Soon, they ran out of fuel. Crews in 15 bombers had to bail out or crash-land. Three were killed and ...
... Doolittle has done a 180 on the Gee Bee airplane that served him so well. Enclosed is a copy of a letter from Doolittle to Granville Brothers Aircraft. It was written just after his establishment of a new world land-airplane speed ...
... Doolittle raid on Japan, some excellent books are available. Most complete is the admirable "Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders," (Van Nostrand, 1964) by Col. Carroll V. Glines. Col. Gtines also wrote a detailed account of the fate of the ...
... Doolittle's many accomplishments as an airman was the winning of the Schneider Trophy race in 1925 when he hurled his plane across the course at the then unheardof speed of 232 miles an hour. In 1926 Lieutenant Doolittle was in Chile as ...