Jimmy Doolittle
Jimmy Doolittle excelled at every aspect of aviation. A daredevil pilot, aeronautical engineer, combat leader, and record-holder, Doolittle was a multi-talented pioneer. He, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Charles Lindbergh were the three best-known aviators of the interwar period. World War II only served to increase Doolittle's fame.
Doolittle was an amateur boxer studying mining in college when he quit to join the Air Service during World War I. He was taught to fly and spent the war as an instructor. When the war ended and Doolittle was faced with deciding whether to return to college or stay in the military, he made what he considered the easy choice and decided to continue flying. And his career quickly took off. He taught himself aerobatics--performing the first outside loop--and became a regular on the air service air show circuit. In 1921, he flew with the First Provisional Air Brigade when, under the direction of General Billy Mitchell, they performed bombing demonstrations......
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