James Harold Doolittle
MilitaryBecame Commanding General of 12th AF September 1942; Commanding General of Northwest African Strategic Air Force March 1943; assumed command of 15th AF November 1943; Commanding General of 8th Air Force 6 January 1944 to 9 May 1945. Medal Of Honor for leading the 'Doolittle Raid' in April 1942 in which 16 B-25 bombers were launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet CV8 to bomb targets in Japan. Aircraft overflew Japan and landed in China, where the surviving crews evaded with the aid of Chinese partisans. Taps 1994.
MOH/ DSM w/ 1 Oak Leaf Cluster/ SS/ DFC w/ 2 Oak Leaf Clusters/ BSM/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Clusters/ American Defense Service Medal w/ 1 service star/ American Campaign Medal/ Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 1 bronze campaign star/ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal w/ 1 silver and 3 bronze campaign stars/ WW II Victory Medal/ Armed Forces Reserve Medal/ Legion d'honneur (France)/ Bolivian Order of Condor/ Chinese Medal/ Grand Officer of French LOH/ Croix de Guerre w/ palm/ Knight of Companion of Order of Bath
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Alameda, California | 14 December 1896 | |
Died |
Pebble Beach, Del Monte Forest, CA, USA | 27 September 1993 | |
Buried |
Plot Section 7A, Grave 110 |
Revisions
Added an association to 15th AF per info n the "Summary biography".
Updated a Buried event per Find-a-grave Memorial ID 2454.
Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2454/jimmy-doolittle
NARA files and biography lists General Doolittle's awards and decorations. He has several files with his officer number, which show 0-271855 and 0-271885. His Medal of Honor file lists 0-271855.
George L Warrick Jr, via American Air Museum Memory Book Correspondence.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Who's Who in the Eighth Air Force, February 1945; The Mighty Eighth by Roger Freeman