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The Life of James H. Doolittle

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    The life of James H. Doolittle

  • Recieved Degree of Engineering

  • First to complete cross-country flight

  • Won the Schneider Cup Race

  • First to complete an outside loop

  • First to complete a successful blind takeoff and landing using instruments alone

  • Influenced Shell Oil Company to produce High Octane fuel

  • Won the Bendix Trophy

  • Set the world’s high-speed record for land planes

  • World War II begins

  • Pearl Harbor hit and U.S. joins war

  • Doolittle Raid on Tokyo

  • Earned Congressional Medal of Honor

  • Received first Distinguished Service Medal from General Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • World War II ends

  • Received the Tony Janus Award