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Jimmy Doolittle
Sign in to saveAlso known as James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, James Harold Doolittle, James H. Doolittle
American military officer and aviation pioneer (1896–1993)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Across the High Frontier; The Story of a Test Pilot - Major Charles E. Yeager USAF
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein
· 1982 · cited 18,699x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,265x
- An approach to correlate tandem mass spectral data of peptides with amino acid sequences in a protein database
· 1994 · cited 5,718x
- Role of YAP/TAZ in mechanotransduction
· 2011 · cited 5,582x
- Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain
· 2006 · cited 5,275x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1896-12-14 ) December 14, 1896, Alameda, California , U.S.
- Died
- September 27, 1993 (1993-09-27) (aged 96), Pebble Beach, California , U.S.
- Buried
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Army (1917–1918), United States Army Air Corps (1918–1941), United States Army Air Force (1941–1947), United States Air Force (1947–1959)
- Service years
- 1917–1959
- Rank
- General (Honorary)
- Commands
- Eighth Air Force , Fifteenth Air Force , Twelfth Air Force
- Conflicts
- World War I Mexican Border Service World War II Pacific Theater Doolittle Raid Mediterranean Theater European Theater Pearl Harbor
- Awards
- Medal of Honor , Army Distinguished Service Medal (2), Silver Star , Distinguished Flying Cross (3), Bronze Star Medal , Air Medal (4), Presidential Medal of Freedom , The Explorers Club Medal
- Spouse
- Josephine Daniels ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. December 24, 1917</span>"}]]}'>1917 ; died December 24, 1988</span>"}]]}'>1988 )
- Other work
- Air race pilot, test pilot , Shell Oil Company VP and director, chairman of Space Technology Laboratories and NACA
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Encyclopedic overview
James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. He made early coast-to-coast flights and record-breaking speed flights, won many flying races, and helped develop and flight-test instrument flying. According to the FAA, he was the first pilot ever to perform a successful instrument flight.
Doolittle grew up in Nome, Alaska. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922. That year, he made the first cross-country flight in an Airco DH.4, and in 1925, was awarded a doctorate in aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first such doctorate degree issued in the United States. In 1927, he performed the first outside loop, thought at the time to be a fatal aerobatic maneuver, and two years later, in 1929, pioneered the use of "blind flying", where a pilot relies on flight instruments alone, which later won him the Harmon Trophy and made all-weather airline operations practical.
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