JIMMY DOOLITTLE: LEGENDARY AVIATOR, RECORD HOLDER & MEDAL OF HONOR, Signed for Sale

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JIMMY DOOLITTLE: LEGENDARY AVIATOR, RECORD HOLDER & MEDAL OF HONOR, Signed For Sale

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JIMMY DOOLITTLE: LEGENDARY AVIATOR, RECORD HOLDER & MEDAL OF HONOR, Signed:
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DOOLITTLE, James Harold. LEGENDARY AVIATOR, PIONEERING AIR RECORD HOLDER AND MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT. Dramatic poster-like 1931 National Air Races business-size cover PRESENTING AVIATION’S CLASSIC FOR 1931, NATIONAL AIR RACES, CLEVELAND AUG. 29 TO SEPT. 7’. On the reverse: ‘J. H. Doolittle’ signature, NAR logos, NAR return address, Cleveland Air Mail Field cancellation and various other stamps. Beautiful. (1896-1993). Flying cadet in the Signal Corps Reserve (1917); Military Aviator (1918); flight and gunnery instructor, and service on the Mexican border (1918-20); one of five pilots, H. O. Williams, H. H. Bass, D. W. Watkins and W. S. Smith, of what was recorded as the Stunt Squad, five Thomas Morse Scouts flown from San Diego\'s Ream Field that performed the first known precision formation maneuvers, over San Diego during the Nov. 27, 1918 victory celebration; crashed on takeoff attempting the first one-stop coast-to-coast Jacksonville-San Diego flight in a DH (1921); the following month he tried again, stopping at San Antonio\'s Kelly Field for fuel and landing at San Diego\'s Rockwell Field (2275 miles) after an elapsed time of 22 hours and 35 minutes (1921); flew Pablo Beach, Fla to Rockwell Field, San Diego in 21 hours 19 minutes in a rebuilt and modified Liberty-engined DH-4B, the first transcontinental flight within a single day (1922), for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross (1922)15; BA, Univ. of CA (1922); MA, MIT (1924); aircraft acceleration tests at McCook Field OH (1924); D Sc, MIT (1925); special training in seaplanes at NAS Anacostia (1925); first place in the 1925 James Gordon Bennett Aviation Cup Race flying a Curtiss V1400-powered Curtiss R3C-2 at 232.57 mph; won the Schneider Cup flying a Curtiss R3 at Baltimore (1925); recipient of the Mackay Trophy, awarded annually for the most meritorious flight of the year, for his Schneider Trophy win (1925); leave of absense to demonstrate aircraft in South America, where he broke both ankles and demonstrated aerobatics in a P-1 with both ankles in casts (1926); McCook Field OH and Mitchell Field NY, where he helped develop the artificial horizon and directional gyroscope; made the first \"blind\" flight completely on instruments; flew the first successful outside loop (1927-28) ; 1927 National Air Races\' Packard Trophy race, placing second flying a Douglas C-1 (1927); Transport Pilot rating no. 18 (1928){LICENSE}; made the first all-blind flight at Mitchell Field with a safety pilot in a Consolidated Aircraft NY-2 (1929) ; recipient of the Harmon International \"National\" Trophy for outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences of aeronautics in the United States (1929); member of the \"Caterpillar Club\" after abandoning an aircraft over Cleveland OH (1929){CATCLUB}, abandoning a second aircraft over Cleveland in 1931; advisor for the U. S. Army on the construction of Floyd Bennett Airport (1930) NY left the USAS as a LT to promote Shell\'s aviation products (1930); a referee, he flew an official tour plane, the Shell Oil Co. Lockheed Vega 5A, in the 1931 Edsel B. Ford Reliability Tour{FRT}; competed in the 1931 Thompson Trophy Race flying the P&W Wasp Jr.-powered Laird Super Solution. He was forced out in the seventh lap; set a new transcontinental record, Burbank to Newark in a Laird Super Solution of 11 hours 16 minutes which included three stops (1931); first place in the 1931 Bendix Trophy Race at the National Air Races flying the P&W Wasp Jr.-powered Laird Super Solution at an average speed of 223.06 mph and an elapsed time of 9 hours 10 minutes 21 seconds (1931) ; first place in the 1932 Thompson Trophy Race flying a P&W Wasp Sr.-powered GeeBee R-1 Senior Sportster R-1 at 252.69 mph ; won the Bendix (1932); a world\'s record speed over a straightaway 3 km course of 294.38 mph at Cleveland OH in a P&W Wasp-engined Granville Brothers Gee Bee (1932); official F. A. I speed record, 294 mph in a P&W-powered Granville Bros. Gee Bee at Cleveland OH (1932) ; member of the Army Board, studying the organization of the Air Corps (1934); set a transcontinental speed record, with his wife Josephine and Shell Oil executive Robert Adamson aboard, for a transport aircraft when he flew an American Airlines Vultee V1 Burbank CA-Floyd Bennett Field NY in 11 hours 59 minutes nonstop, a record for transport aircraft and a west-east record (1935) ; active duty (1940); commanded one of the most dramatic American actions of WWII, the bombing raid on Japan in USAAF B-25s flown from the USS Hornet, for which he received the Medal of Honor and was advanced from LTC to BG (1942); recipient of the prestigious Daniel Guggenheim Medal for notable achievement in the advancement of aeronautics (1942); commanded the 12th Air Force in North Africa (1942-43); CG, 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean (1943-44); CG, 8th Air Force in Europe and the Pacific (1944-45); returned to Shell Oil as vice president and. later, a director (1946); member of the NACA during the period 1948-58; first president of the Air Force Association (1947); recipient of the Harmon International Trophy for outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences of aeronautics for leadership, skill and courage, symbolic of all those who flew in WWII (1949); special assistant to the Air Force Chief of Staff (1951- ); recipient of the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy for \"significant public service as a civilian of enduring value to aviation in the United States\" (1952); recipient of the Gold Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale for his contribution to the development of aeronautics (1954); chairman of the NACA during the period 1956-58; retired from USAF duties (1959); chairman of the board, Space Technology Laboratories (1959- ). 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