Sep 27 1993
From The Space Library
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Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, legendary Army aviator and World War 11 hero, died at the age of 96. He was best known for leading "Doolittle's Raiders" in a daring bombing run on Tokyo and other Japanese cities in April 1942. The raid brought the war home to Japan for the first time and lifted American morale when the country was still reeling from a string of Axis victories. After the war, General Doolittle served as president of the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science and chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the forerunner of NASA. (B Sun, Oct 1/93; AP, Oct 1/93; W Post, Oct 2/93)
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